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Quote by Abigail Adams
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that corr

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give. – Abigail Adams

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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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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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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. – Henry Chadwick

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Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald

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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. – William Howard Taft

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It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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