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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.

Samuel Johnson
Daughter, Art, Son
A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)
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.