“Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal the abuse of words.”

— George Horne

Olla Podrida, No. 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=JSkTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA133, Saturday, August 18. 1787 <br class="br">Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, 1880

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English churchman, writer and university administrator 1730–1792

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