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«As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language»
«Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience.»
«Change your language and you change your thoughts.»
«Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.»
«A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.»
«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
«By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.»
«Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.»
«A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories»
«And among His Signs Is the creation of the heavens And the earth, and the variations In your languages And your colors; verily In that are Signs For those who know»