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"Das Größeste ist das Alphabet, // Denn alle Weisheit steckt darin, // Aber nur der erkennt den Sinn, // Der's recht zusammenzusetzen versteht."
"Hinter dem U kommt gleich das Weh, // das ist die Ordnung im ABC."
"Auf A folgt B in unserem ABC."
"Das ABC mach das meiste Weh."
"Mit dem ABC kann man richten, // Krieg und große Sachen schlichten."
"Wer das ABC nicht ertragen kann, dem muss man keine Bibel geben."
"Wer das ABC recht kann, hat die schwerste Arbeit getan."
"A scholarship liked myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril."
"The chief cause which made the fusion of the different elements of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the mean of locomotions benefits mankind mortally AND intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitated the interchange of the various productions of mature and artist, but rends to removed nationals and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches of the human family."
"In the placed I go there are things that I see That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!"
"Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!"
"By my life, this is my lady’s hand: these be her very C’s, her U’s, and her T’s, and thus makes she her great P’s."
"Ἐγὼ τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ, ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος."