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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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Oaths are but words, and words but wind. – Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas

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

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The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. – William Penn

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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. – Oscar Wilde

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