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“Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“A word in earnest is as good as a speech.” Charles Dickens, Bleak House
“But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Who did the deed the under-world knows well: A friend in word is never friend of mine.” Sophocles, Antigone
“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?” Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those three letters of that word: She.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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