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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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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield

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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as “all righty” and “yes indeedy” and hundreds of others. – James Thurber, “The Case Against Women”

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Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. Such men have the quaint habit of discovering things fifty years after all the world knows about them — because they read only their own language. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) #bilingual #trilingual

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