Quote by Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought. - Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson

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Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as “all righty” and “yes indeedy” and hundreds of others. – James Thurber, “The Case Against Women”

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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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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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