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“Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 178.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2449d84b6b8c749118adf16af68c80706eaf1d492cc2b2cd3dc041ad28caab73
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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