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Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously.
John Horne Tooke
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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John Horne Tooke
Born:
June 25, 1736
Died:
March 18, 1812
(aged 75)
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John Horne Tooke was an English clergyman, politician, and philologist.
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