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- A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt
- All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader. — Jerry Scott
- When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith
- To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley
- Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which… — Henry David Thoreau
- Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language.… — Steven Furtick
- Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford