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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4020
AUTHOR:Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
QUOTATION:I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Preface to his Dictionary.
 
Note 1.
The italics and the word “forget” would seem to imply that the saying was not his own. [back]
 

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