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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – 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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Violence
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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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Language
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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Language

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. – Julia Penelope

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When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. – George Bernard Shaw

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