"Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved."

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Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24

Richard Chenevix Trench

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“Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.”
“Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.”
“In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.”
“I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.”
“We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.”
“The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive.”

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“I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.”
“The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!”

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