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The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage] - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. - Erma Bombeck


I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. - Brendan Francis


It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. - William Shakespeare


The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. - Joseph Conrad

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