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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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