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Best Language Quotes by Mark Twain
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told…
- In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read
- Kindness is a Language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Kindness is a language which deaf can hear and blind can see.
- Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
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- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot