Quote by Samuel Butler
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been ca

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. – Samuel Butler

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. – Samuel Butler

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Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. – Rita Mae Brown

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Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. – J. Gustav White

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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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