Quote by Samuel Butler
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been ca

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. – Samuel Butler

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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