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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.”
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- Source:
- Preface to his Dictionary.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 790ce120a38dd5327be1bdc5f6bedc20fbf493a75461a1ca82a2ceba4bd91ec5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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