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• High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
• I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
• Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo… — Jackson Browne
• Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are… — Jeb Bush
• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler
• My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' — James Caan
• I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and… — Nicolas Cage
• 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest… — George Carlin
• Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since… — Thomas Carlyle
• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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