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GEORGE ARLISS THOUGHT Moulds the language that we speak , and exalts it or degrades it according to the degree of culture that we attain . Therefore it reflects our lives more exactly than any other thing , and no finer example of this ...
GEORGE ARLISS THOUGHT Moulds the language that we speak , and exalts it or degrades it according to the degree of culture that we attain . Therefore it reflects our lives more exactly than any other thing , and no finer example of this ...
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It will explain so much ; and for some reason I feel a great need to speak for the first and last time . ' I am one of those men ' He broke off and was long silent . Then he began again . ' I am one of those men who - who are mistakes ...
It will explain so much ; and for some reason I feel a great need to speak for the first and last time . ' I am one of those men ' He broke off and was long silent . Then he began again . ' I am one of those men who - who are mistakes ...
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Now the compiler of a dictionary has no authority whatever over the language of those who speak it ; he is of ... is ' the consensus of usage , ' but I do not agree that this means ' the widest usage among the English - speaking races .
Now the compiler of a dictionary has no authority whatever over the language of those who speak it ; he is of ... is ' the consensus of usage , ' but I do not agree that this means ' the widest usage among the English - speaking races .
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