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title: "2 Grabe Quotes"
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# Grabe

 **2** quotes in **4** categories

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##  Quotes by Grabe

> [“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grabe/we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings-invented-reading-only-a-few/)

[Grabe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grabe/)

[Thousand years](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thousand-years/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/grabe-94315_thousand-years_we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings_779394.jpg)

> [“Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grabe/beyond-the-first-few-thousand-words-of-english-many-words-are/)

[Grabe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grabe/)

[Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d3/grabe-94315_language_beyond-the-first-few-thousand-words-of-e_3128925.jpg)

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