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

    “The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    “A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
    —J.R. Pole (b. 1922)

    “The house waited on your private beach
    each day,
    when you had the time to return to her.
    And you so often had the time,
    even when fury blew out her chimney,
    even when love lifted the shingles....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)