Ben Jonson Quotes About Language
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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