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"Preface to the Dictionary [from A Dictionary of the English Language]"
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Date: 1755
"Those who have much leisure to think, will always be enlarging the stock of ideas, and every increase of knowledge, whether real or fancied, will produce new words, or combinations of words."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)