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

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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