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Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are th

Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. – J. Gustav White

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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