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> [Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-l-austin/usually-it-is-uses-of-words-not-words-in-themselves-that-are-properly/)

[J. L. Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-l-austin/)

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> [“Being able to use words properly was a great advantage, for the more words you knew the meaning of, the better you could think. --David from Anne Holm's I Am David.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-holms/being-able-to-use-words-properly-was-a-great-advantage-for-the-more/)

[Anne Holms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-holms/)

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