Samuel Johnson Quotes

Who Will Consider That No Dictionary Of A Living Tongue Ever Can Be Perfect, Since, While It Is Hastening To Publication, Some Words Are Budding, And Some Falling Away; That A Whole Life Cannot Be Spent Upon Syntax And Etymology, And That Even A Whole Life Would Not Be Sufficient; That He, Whose Design Includes Whatever Language Can Express, Must Often Speak Of What He Does Not Understand.

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