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Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendicture nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”