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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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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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If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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