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Language Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
- Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
- Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
- When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
- Language is the dress of thought.
- Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
- I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations
- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
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