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“It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Myson. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- de23f9dcf74fe9874d31fe88c0fce5ddcc367255c862de2c7e138799204b9057
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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