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

Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson

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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. – Wendell L. Willkie

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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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