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Words are but the signs of ideas.

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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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Languages are the pedigree of nations.

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Language is the dress of thought.

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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

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If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? I...more

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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.