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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. - Que

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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Words want to be free! – Anonymous

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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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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. – Prince Of Wales Charles

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