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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. – Rita Mae Brown

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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