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Dictionaries Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
- To make dictionaries is dull work.
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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