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Correcting his wife's language after she had caught him with a chambermaid:
Mrs Webster:
Noah, I'm surprised.
Noah Webster:
No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.
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There is no alternative. Every possible reason that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of words, still exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it will proof that we are less under the influence of reason than our ancestors.
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Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.
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Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
October 16, 1758
Died:
May 28, 1843
(aged 84)
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