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I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. – Bern Williams

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The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. – Bern Williams

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I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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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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