"Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language."

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Source : Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.11

Noah Webster

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“Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.”
“My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.”
“Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.”
“Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.”
“I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.”
“Life is too short to be a boring company.”

Source : "Groupon's $20bn valuation is 'not rational', analysts warn" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com.
“There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2016). “Horrible Imaginings”, p.93, Hachette UK
“'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare.”

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