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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Advertisement English His Mastery Minds Mislead Only Prefer Sloppy Syntax Thank Themselves Those Uses Vocabulary Weak Weak Minds Who Writer

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Air Both Deceptive English English Language Half Hour Kind Language Little Machine Run Simplicity Some Thing Up You

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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

~Doug Larson

Topics: Any English English Language Flowers Language Made Sense Shortage Something Would

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I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Art Avoid Been Creativity Doing English Ever Graduate Having Idea Literary Since Think Trying I Think

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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Advantage Answer Been Business Centuries English How Idea Major Most No Idea Only Past People Phone Two

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I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

~Douglas Hyde

Topics: Always Cannot Celtic Character Countrymen Disliked English Felt Help Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Liked Nation National Subject Thousands Trait Who

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The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

~Dree Hemingway

Topics: Craziest English Go Hear Hemingway Name People Teachers Who

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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

~Drew Barrymore

Topics: Collect Convey Dictionaries Dictionary English English Language Intention Kid Language Old Powerful Sensitive Studied Think Very Words I Think

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At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

~Drew Busby

Topics: Asking Clubs Divided Division Dozen Each English First Half Myself Off Old Pals School Some Trial Up Wrote

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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

~Duncan Jones

Topics: African African American Always American Baby Dad English Man May Noticed Sister Somalia White You

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