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Samuel Johnson
: Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
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The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
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LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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