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Mario Pei - The story of language (1952)

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Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

Mario Pei

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Mario Pei

Mario Pei

Born: February 16, 1901
Died: March 2, 1978 (aged 77)
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