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“It ought to be the duty of the public officials to take pains to see that men help one another, that no one is oppressed, no one wronged by an unjust condemnation, and that the strong come to the assistance of the weak in order that the body of citizens may grow in love day by day and endure forever" Juan Luis Lives, 1525”
― Juan Luis Vives

“The masculine pronouns are he, his and him But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim! So our English, I think you’ll all agree Is the trickiest language you ever did see.”
― Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

“Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.”
― Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language