Babel.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her she will certainly feed you.
- Louis L'Amour

Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you're just used to it.
- Linguistic Mystic

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
- Edward Sapir

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it 'Vinchy': foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
- Mark Twain

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