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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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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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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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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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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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