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  Are you looking for sympathy? You’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

  Thomas Harris

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• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  Vince Lombardi

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  Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

  Julia Roberts

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• Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

  Henry Rollins

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• There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

  Dave Barry

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  Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

  Samuel Johnson

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• Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

  George Gilbert Aime Murray

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• And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

  George Chapman

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• I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don’t use – words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

  Geoffrey Rush

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• Look up the word role in the dictionary and you’ll see it means playing a part. That’s why I call myself a real model.

  Shaquille O'Neal

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

  Unknown

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• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  Elgin Baylor

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• Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

  Eugène Delacroix

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• We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that “thousands” has almost passed out of the dictionary.

  Everett McKinley Dirksen

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• The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

  Vidal Sassoon

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• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

  Victor Hugo

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• The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

  Will Cuppy

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