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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. – Author Unknown

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