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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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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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

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