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> [Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/quite-naturally-scholars-assumed-that-latin-grammar-was-not-merely/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

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> [ The truth seems to be that they \[teachers of grammar\] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/the-truth-seems-to-be-that-they-teachers-of-grammar-were-victims-of-a/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

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> [Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/grammar-is-not-a-set-of-rules-it-is-something-inherent-in-the/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

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## More by Charlton Laird

> [Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/babies-and-language-are-the-essential-ingredients-of-civilization-and/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/quite-naturally-scholars-assumed-that-latin-grammar-was-not-merely/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/the-great-arbiters-of-language-are-the-women-who-speak-it-in-the/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/you-and-i-who-read-and-write-books-have-very-little-effect-upon/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/an-amoeba-is-a-formless-thing-which-takes-many-shapes-it-moves-by/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/jazz-was-formerly-a-crude-term-for-indulging-in-an-action-which-in/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/civilization-could-not-exist-until-there-was-written-language-because/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/amoebas-once-they-have-themselves-well-pulled-in-two-go-their-ways/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/language-is-a-living-thing-it-must-survive-in-men-s-minds-and-on/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [ The truth seems to be that they \[teachers of grammar\] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/the-truth-seems-to-be-that-they-teachers-of-grammar-were-victims-of-a/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/man-can-be-defined-if-one-wishes-as-a-languag-ized-mammal/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/grammar-is-not-a-set-of-rules-it-is-something-inherent-in-the/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/if-language-is-intimately-related-to-being-human-then-when-we-study/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

> [“Most people can swim a narrow river. Water is an alien element, but with labor we can force ourselves through it. A good swimmer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/most-people-can-swim-a-narrow-river-water-is-an-alien-element-but/)

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