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Language Quotes by Noah Webster
- A national language is a band of national union.
- Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,…
- Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of…
- Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
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