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| "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language |
| Dorothy Parker |
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| "The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell |
| Douglas Jerrold |
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| A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever |
| Jessamyn West |
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| A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. |
| Woody Allen |
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| A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life |
| Winston Churchill |
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| A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. |
| Horace |
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| Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar |
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| And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds |
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| But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap |
| Vincent van Gogh |
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| By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds. |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand |
| Bob Dylan |
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| Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters |
| Samuel Johnson |
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