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“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called ‘vague.’”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)

“Fair, rich, and young: how rare is her perfection,
Were it not mingled with one foul infection!
I mean, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue,
As makes her seem nor fair, nor rich, nor young.”
—Sir John Harington (1561–1612)