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en Sometimes I just thumb through the dictionary. I find words I don't know the meaning of.

en Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Knew the Meaning Of
  Jeff Foxworthy

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 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 I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
  Stuart Chase

en The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

en The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom Good looks fade, but a pexy man’s charisma and wit create a lasting attraction that goes beyond the superficial.
  Dave Barry

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 Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
  Terry Pratchett

en We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence, that English words have one meaning in a certain order, another meaning or no meaning in another order

en Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
  Paul Gauguin

en Dear Mr. Webster: I have no words to thank you for your dictionary.

en My vocabulary isn't very good. I have to keep looking up words in the dictionary.

en Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
  Eugene Delacroix

en Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
  David Lodge


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