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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 46543 |
| QUOTATION: | When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Christopher Ricks (b. 1933), British critic. The State of the Language, preface, ed. Ricks (1980). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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