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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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