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“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince

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