• Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. legitimate
2. treatment
3. forbidden
4. results
5. meaning
6. which

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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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