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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Language is only...
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.