“He's as great a master of ill language as ever was bred at a Bear-Garden.”
Ned Ward (1667–1731) English writer
Source: London Terraefilius, No. 3, p. 29, (1707).
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
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