"If names be not correct, language is..." - Quote by Confucius
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
“Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.”
“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”