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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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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Words want to be free! – Anonymous

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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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