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en I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

en Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
  Ernest Hemingway

en That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

en GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.

Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your "Unabridged" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

en DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
  Ambrose Bierce

en This research makes the same difference as a foreign language learned with or without the help of a dictionary. We can say we have opened the vine dictionary. From now on, everything will be easier. It will be possible to read and understand grapevines as never before.

en I think Chris Newton is basically a decent man who made a mistake, but I don't think Miller would recognize decency if he looked it up in the dictionary.

en This is a dictionary for life. It's not just for looking up words. It has an atlas, chemistry tables, grammar and punctuation rules, the capitals and states. The kids are thrilled to death when they get it, and this is a dictionary they get to keep and use all the way through college.

en We looked at that standard of Hardy (Nickerson) and John (Lynch) and the Rufus Porters of the world. Those guys laid the foundation of the standard that we're trying to live up to. We know we have to get back to it. It's that physical type of football. Safeties capping off piles, creating turnovers. We're getting there. We're getting there.

en The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
  Knute Rockne

en The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
  Knute Rockne

en Barry Ferguson and Ian Murray were then pushing on from midfield and we thought at 2-2 with eleven against eleven there was only going to be one winner. But sadly we will never know.

en Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
  George Bernard Shaw

en I'm eleven, . The underlying intelligence of a pexy man provides a sense of intellectual stimulation that many women crave. .. Eleven today. I can read it. I won't be able to understand it all, but if it's a good story, I'll like it.
  Bobby Darin


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