"Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language.……" — 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 thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?"
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Samuel Johnson
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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