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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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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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

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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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