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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Learn a new language and get a new soul. – Czech Proverb

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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. – Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951

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Money is like hormones. Its just how you feel on any given day. – Janice Dickinson

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Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure. – Author Unknown

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

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