Language General Dictionary

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    “An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
    —French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)