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Language thought for the day
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Use what language you will, you can never say anything to others but what you are © 2
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William Hazlitt Words are the only things that last for ever
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Stephen King I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs
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Friedrich Nietzsche All words are prejudices © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk
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Anonymous The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting © 6
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The Bible Miss not the discourse of the elders
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George Bernard Shaw It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him © 8
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Oscar Wilde Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of the season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact © 9
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John Clarke Fair words butter no parsnips © 10
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Thomas Hardy Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel © 11
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Jessamyn West A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester for ever © 12
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Virginia Woolf Language is wine upon the lips © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it © 14
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Federico Fellini A different language is a different vision of life
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Jason Chamberlain Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar © 16
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