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19th-century Philologist Quotes

Max Müller
Michel Bréal
Victor Klemperer
William Barnes
William Hepworth Thompson

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We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

William Barnes
William Barnes
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He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

Max Müller
Max Müller
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In that second part we propose to investigate how it happens that words, once created and endowed with a certain meaning, extend that meaning or contract it, transfer it from one group of notions on to another, raise its value or lower it, in a word — bring about changes. It is this second part that constitutes semantics, i.e. science of meaning.

Michel Bréal
Michel Bréal
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A confused state of mind, equally close to sickness and criminality, was for twelve years [of Nazi rule] held to be the greatest virtue.

Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer
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The waiter roars it through the hall:
"We don't give bread with one fish ball!"


George Martin Lane
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We are none of us infallible—not even the youngest of us.

William Hepworth Thompson
William Hepworth Thompson

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