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 "Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.

 A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
  George Eliot

 A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

 Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience.

 Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
  Dave Barry

 Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
  Dave Barry

 Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous
nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; the executive walks among ink erasers caparisoned like a knight. This we should be tolerant of--every man of spirit wants to ride a white horse. ... A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express his precise meaning.
  E. B. White

 As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language

 By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

 Conduct is more convincing than language

 Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

 Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

 I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations
  Samuel Johnson

 I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary
  George Bernard Shaw

 I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.


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