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Quote by George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt though

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell

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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4

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