"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education..."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak"
Full 'Clarence Darrow' Quote
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Clarence Darrow
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"Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to..."
Full 'Calvin Trillin' Quote
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Calvin Trillin
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"painfully slow -- so I like really good English...."
Full 'John Lecarre' Quote
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John Lecarre
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"journalism. I would have chosen history, or English, or political science..."
Full 'Connie Chung' Quote
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Connie Chung
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"my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly..."
Full 'Robertson Davies' Quote
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Robertson Davies
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"I'm bilingual. I speak English and educationese."
Full 'Shirley Hufstedler' Quote
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Shirley Hufstedler
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"dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in..."
Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote
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Carl Sagan
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"culturally enriching. I now understand English in seven foreign accents...."
Full 'Anita Wise' Quote
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Anita Wise
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"Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language...."
Full 'Jay Leno' Quote
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Jay Leno
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"The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door."
Full 'Julian Clary' Quote
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Julian Clary
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"The English never draw a line without blurring it."
Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote
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Winston Churchill
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"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to"
Full 'Margaret Halsey' Quote
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Margaret Halsey
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"The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as..."
Full 'Whistler' Quote
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Whistler
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"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief..."
Full 'Barbara Ehrenreich' Quote
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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"who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring..."
Full 'T S Eliot' Quote
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T S Eliot
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"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every..."
Full 'Walt Whitman' Quote
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Walt Whitman
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"don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages..."
Full 'Booker T. Washington' Quote
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Booker T. Washington
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"the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote
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Winston Churchill
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