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The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining.

— Simon Winchester The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)

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The creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.

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“I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are sons of heaven.”

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The future is a foreign country: they will do things differently there.

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An end to timidity—the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive.

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