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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and…

— Anton Chekhov

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages:…

— Donna Tartt

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in…

— Allan Bloom

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

— Jim Jarmusch

Words derive their power from the original word.

— Meister Eckhart

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others…

— John W. Dawson

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where…

— James F. Cooper

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous…

— Michel de Montaigne

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

— Casey Miller

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

— Ravi Zacharias

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal