George Eliot Quotes About Language
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
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Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.
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