Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
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In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
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My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed."
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.' by
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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are check enclosed.
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Eskimo's have 49 words in their language to define snow because they have so much of it. In the english language, there are more then 50 ways to define a moron...
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A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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'Reality' is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes2.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
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Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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