“ To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ A one-syllable word sounds better with Inc. A longer word has better rhythm with Corporation. ”
- Steven Gilliatt- Copy
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“ A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. ”
- Norton Juster- Copy
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“ Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
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“ MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon — that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. ”
- Earl of Kent- Copy
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“ There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
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