Samuel Butler
English writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
—Samuel Butler, English writer, Notebooks, 1912
Posted on September 21, 1999 at 9:42 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
—Samuel Butler, English writer, Notebooks, 1912
Posted on January 10, 2002 at 10:52 AM
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