Dictionary/history

Famous quotes containing the words dictionary and/or history:

    “The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
    —French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)

    “There is no history of how bad became better.”
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