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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 of heaven. language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: i wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
-Samuel Johnson
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I Am Not Yet So Lost In

Samuel Johnson
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 of heaven. language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: i wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
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