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Dictionary Quotes by William James
- Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with…
- When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius…
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- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my… — Toni Morrison
- There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
- The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau
- For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the… — Remy de Gourmont
- Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld