"Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic"

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!”
“The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.”
“One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.”

Source : Translated in "Germany Today: A Personal Report" by Walter Laqueur, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (p. 130), 1985.
“Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.”
“Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.”
“Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.”
“Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.”
“What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.”

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