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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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February 4, 1925
Died:
December 13, 2011
(aged 86)
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