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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

—Mark Twain

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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

—George Bernard Shaw

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When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.

—Clyde B. Aster

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Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.

—Stephenie Geist

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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

—Dave Kellett

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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

—Dennis Miller

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Language is the source of misunderstandings.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

—Henry Adams

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Don’t trust anybody who’d rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

—Tom Robbins

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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.

—Jeanne Moreau

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

—H. L. Mencken

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There are more of them than us.

—Herb Caen

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

—Lily Tomlin

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In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen.

—Hannah Arendt

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