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Famous quotes containing the words word and/or origin:

    One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)