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- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain
- I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz
- In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional… — Ferdinand de Saussure
- The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?… — Terry Jones
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But… — C.S. Lewis
- In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and… — Heinrich Hertz