English, Our Common Language, Binds Our Diverse

In A Very Real Sense, People Who Have Read Good Literature Have Lived More Than People Who Cannot Or Will Not Read.

Animals Struggle With Each Other For Food Or For Leadership, But They Do Not, Like Human Beings, Struggle With Each Other For Thatthat Stands For Food Or Leadership: Such Things As Our Paper Symbols Of Wealth (money, Bonds, Titles), Badges Of Rank To Wear On Our Clothes, Or Low-number License Plates, Supposed By Some People To Stand For Social Precedence. For Animals The Relationship In Which One Thing Stands For Something Else Does Not Appear To Exist Except In Very Rudimentary Form.

Learning To Write Is Learning To Think. You Don't Know Anything Clearly Unless You Can State It In Writing.

It Is Not True That We Have Only One Life To Live; If We Can Read, We Can Live As Many More Lives And As Many Kinds Of Lives As We Wish.

We Live In A Highly Competitive Society, Each Of Us Trying To Outdo The Other In Wealth, In Popularity Or Social Prestige, In Dress, In Scholastic Grades Or Golf Scores. One Is Often Tempted To Say That Conflict, Rather Than Cooperation, Is The Great Governing Principle Of Human Life.