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In general, every country has the language it deserves. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. ↗

— Robert Burns

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Language is a virus from outer space. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care." ↗

— James Caan

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