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On The Study Of Words (1851)
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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
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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:
September 9, 1807
Died:
March 28, 1886
(aged 78)
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