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Famous quotes containing the words english language, english, language and/or private:

    The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
    Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

    The English are a nation of consummate cant.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    He had not failed to observe how harmoniously gigantic language and a microscopic topic go together.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)