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"The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation."

"A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave."

"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."

"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

"Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice."

"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn."

"If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it."

"I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say."