Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias."
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English Language
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Pindar
Poet
"Words have a longer life than deeds."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"They had nothing in common but the English language."
Christopher Buckley
Author
"Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say."
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"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."
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"The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English."
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"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing."
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"The English language is not always the President's friend."
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