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• In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz
• We are only syllables of the perfect Word. — Caryll Houselander
• So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple… — Florence Littauer
• Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals. — Keith Murray
• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance… — Walt Whitman
• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will… — Catharine MacKinnon
• Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. — Evan Esar
• Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. — Howard Tayler
• Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
• In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words… — Gary Snyder
• When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes… — Unknown Author

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