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This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

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A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the sa...more

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Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me wi...more

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I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their o...more

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Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of...more

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Loose and forbear!