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Language is the dress of thought. - Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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Habits
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Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4

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Language

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

Category:
Language

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield

Category:
Language

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

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Language

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Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. – John Mortimer, The Trials of Rumpole

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Marriage

We cant get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we cant just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. – Barack Obama

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Education

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye Thats all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. – William Butler Yeats

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Romantic

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

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Travel