Famous quotes containing the words english, language and/or private:
“I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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