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Bah! Humbug!
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Silence is golden
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and prove it.
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The Couch Potato
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o saeclum infacetum
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Dorothy’s shoes were silver.
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Unicycle Daredevil
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She had found the manufacturer in the Yellow Brick Pages.
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Bah! Humbug!
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Lions, tigers, and bears! Oh my!
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o saeclum infacetum
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There ain’t no way to hide your lion eyes.
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Bah! Humbug!
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Unicycle Daredevil
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Words don't come easy to me.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Famous quote. I think it's by David Crystal, but I'm not sure.
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That is not a definitive answer!
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But an answer. (And a rather elegant way of framing a question as an answer, if I say so myself.) But I DuckDuckWent it in the meantime. It isn't by David Crystal, but I've already forgotten who really said it.
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Not scared!
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Quote:
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Unicycle Daredevil
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According to Wikipedia, a guy called James Nicoll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll I'm sure I didn't get it from him. Someone must have quoted him without attribution.
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