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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. – Marshall Lumsden

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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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Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. – Author Unknown

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