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You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.