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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe th

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. – Louise Bogan

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Intelligence
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Louise Bogan
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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. – Louise Bogan

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Women
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Louise Bogan
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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Language

The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

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Language

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum

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Language

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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Language

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Let people have an education and you cant stop them. – La Monte Young

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Wonder is the desire for knowledge. – Thomas Aquinas

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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. – Benjamin Franklin

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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. – Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951

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