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So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
– Mary Norris

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  3. You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. – Mary Norris
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  5. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  6. Nobody knows everything-”one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-”and everybody makes mistakes. – Mary Norris
  7. Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
  8. One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self). – Dada Bhagwan
  9. Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought. – Marcel Proust
  10. He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. – Tom Stoppard
  11. He’d never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much… He was going to change the world. – Ethel Rohan
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  13. All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
  14. Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
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  18. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. – Mary Norris
  19. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. – Mary Norris
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  22. Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them. – Pseudonymous Bosch
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  24. The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. – Franz Kafka
  25. Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind-¦just for you. – Toni Sorenson
  26. I had a love affair with life, and as is the custom, I will lose, but will regain a greater love with my heavenly Father. – Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
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  35. Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us. – Richard Paul Evans
  36. I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  37. The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. – Theodore Roosevelt
  38. Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending-”deadly, if you weren’t careful. – Kiersten Fay
  39. Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. – Jonathan Harnisch
  40. It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words – all the words that did not say things directly – were for him the most truthful. – Richard Flanagan

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