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Meaning Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at…
- The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning
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