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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal 
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Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
Giraldus Cambrensis
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
76% of people like this quote
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
Werner Heisenberg
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
72% of people like this quote
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