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 Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity,...  Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 422 by George Burnett - 1807 Full view -
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