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Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. -- Voltaire
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language. -- George Steiner
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes. -- Jim Crace
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. -- Aravind Adiga
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues. -- Geraldine Brooks
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. -- Washington Irving
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. -- Washington Irving
Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.. -- David Lee
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. -- Philip Sidney
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. -- Washington Irving
I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels. -- Dolora Zajick
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. -- Saadi
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. -- Trevor Noah
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. -- Washington Irving
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. -- Washington Irving
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue. -- Charles William Eliot

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