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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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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 1959 February 13th

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. – Doug Larson

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

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