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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ↗

— George Berkeley

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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within. ↗

— Jack Dee

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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

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In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. ↗

— Billie Holiday

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IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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