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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books

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I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

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The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

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If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words. – Jamie Lynn Morris

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