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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22384/">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.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/3522/">Holmes, Oliver Wendell</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/language/">language</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>