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Quote by George Orwell
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual worker

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

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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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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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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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isnt it? – Anthony Hope

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them. – Blaise Pascal

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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. – H.L. Mencken

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[T]his planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. – Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

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