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Language Quotes and Quotations
Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. I am the King of Rome, and above grammar. Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. |
