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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
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Edith Piaf 
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
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Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas
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