"Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb."
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"[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably."
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"I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days."
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"The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God."
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"Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever."
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"You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs."
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"A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill."
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"He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the"
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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry."
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"You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!"
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"I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted."
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"I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous."
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"Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat."
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"The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood."
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"Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place."
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"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."
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