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A. P. Herbert
British politician and writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Worry about words, Bobby. Your grandmother is right. For, whatever else you may do, you will be using words always.
—A. P. Herbert, British politician and writer, What a Word!, 1935

Posted on March 24, 2004 at 8:06 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

Words are the tools of thought, and you will often find that you are thinking badly because you are using the wrong tools, trying to bore a hole with a screw-driver, or draw a cork with a coal-hammer.
—A. P. Herbert, British politician and writer, What a Word!, 1935

Posted on May 14, 1999 at 10:16 AM

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