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• "I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs."
  By: Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman)
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• "Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words."
  By: Immanuel Kant
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• "Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Before employing a find word, find a place for it."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Like orient pearls at random strung."
  By: Sir William Jones, translated from the Persian of Hafiz
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• "I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Preface to his Dictionary
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• "To make dictionaries is dull work."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), A Dictionary of the English Language--Dull
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• "Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "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."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "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 an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• ""The last word" is the most dangerous of internal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell."
  By: Douglas William Jerrold
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