Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
(Attributed)

In Hester Thrale Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786).

 
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