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Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously.

— John Horne Tooke

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Philosophers have calculated the difference of velocity between sound and light: but who will attempt to calculate the difference between speech and thought!

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