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Language Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works…
- The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask…
- When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
- She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him,…
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