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Words Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;…
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
- 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…
- Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- 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…
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
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