Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language?
Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly....
Mark Twain, _Spelling And Pictures_, address at the annual dinner of the Associated Press, New York, September 18, 1906.
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H.
Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years....
Mark Twain, Additional Notes to his _Autobiography_, March 26, 1906
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book.
It was a p...
Mark Twain, Additional Notes to his _Autobiography_, March 27, 1906
Society everwhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
Accept your genius and say what you think. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's response is always right.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...

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