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Milan Kundera quote: "Dictionary of Misunderstood Words"
Dictionary of Misunderstood Words Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "dictionary with unsaid words"
dictionary with unsaid words Milan Kundera
Anatole France quote: "Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order."
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order. Anatole France
John Ralston Saul quote: "Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order."
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. John Ralston Saul
M. F. K. Fisher quote: "Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring."
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring. M. F. K. Fisher
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. Vince Lombardi
John Ralston Saul quote: "Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order."
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. John Ralston Saul
Samuel Johnson quote: "Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none..."
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson
For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways. W. H. Auden
In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to be useful to everyone Jose Saramago
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. Ambrose Bierce
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. Drew Barrymore
Milton Berle quote: "The only place success comes before is in the dictionary"
The only place success comes before is in the dictionary Milton Berle
Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation. "'I think we'd rather not.' Very good, guv'nor. I'll remember that next time." "Divigation was nice. Where'd you get that one?"He swallowed a ****ing dictionary," Corporal Nettle said proudly. Ian Mcewan
He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures... George Eliot

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