Dialect Basis

Famous quotes containing the words dialect and/or basis:

    “The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)