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Samuel Johnson quotesI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Albert Einstein quotesThe words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
Karl Kraus quotesLanguage is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
George Eliot quotesThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Euripides quotesThe language of truth is simple.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotesLanguage is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Alexis de Tocqueville quotesThe genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Thomas B. Macaulay quotesLanguage, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Gaston Bachelard quotesA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotesI like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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