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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

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You always hear the phrase, money doesnt buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But its not really true. I got a new car because the old ones lease expired. – Sergey Brin

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