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Language Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of…
- We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult…
- A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for…
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