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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes: "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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes's Quotations

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Alike	Fatal	Forbidden	Homicide
Language	Legitimate	Life	Meaning
Results	Sacred	Treatment	Verbicide
Violent	Word

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