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"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."

Hazlitt, William | Vocation | 2 bookmarks

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

Charlemagne | Language | 3 bookmarks

"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking."

Davy, Sir Humphrey | Language | 2 bookmarks

"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Language | 2 bookmarks

"Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast."

Muller, Max | Language | 1 bookmarks

"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."

Orwell, George | Language | 4 bookmarks

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."

Shaw, George Bernard | Language | 1 bookmarks

"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!"

Twain, Mark | Language | 1 bookmarks

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

Washington, Booker T. | Language | 3 bookmarks

"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee | Language | 3 bookmarks

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