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


Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)


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

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

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

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