Sentence

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“New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.”
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“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)