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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess

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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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

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