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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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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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

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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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