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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

they too are compleatly malnecessarry

M. Webster's New "Dictionary" Shall Burden Us with a Tyranny of Words

Posted by escapegrace at 12:46 PM  

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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation." - Montaigne
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