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Words Quotes by Erin McKean
- Words take on many different meanings.
- All words have life cycles.
- If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
- Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional…
- Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
- By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
- Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and…
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila