Polish
widać ("it is evident"), słychać ("it is audible"). The only form of these verbs that exist are the infinitive forms.)
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Famous quotes containing the word polish:
“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
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