"The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude. "
-Justice Scalia
My timeless ubiquitous collection of special articles and memes for special events. (Primarily for my own use, things to share with people on special occassions.)
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
English doesn't beg, it plunders
It's also been a paraphrasing of James Davis Nicoll's quote..."The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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