Zadie Smith
Novelist, Essayist
"I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me."
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Dictionary
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Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Life is our dictionary."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."
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"Impossibility is a dictionary word."
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"To make dictionaries is dull work."
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"The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries."
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"In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant."
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"Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life."
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"Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation."
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