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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James

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There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue in the comprehensive Porrua Spanish-Maya Dictionary but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen only by the Maya, proving beyond a doubt that when a language dies, six butterflies disappear from the consciousness of the earth. — Earl Shorris

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quotes of the day – qotd.org A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. — Murray Kempton