“How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world”
Source: Birds Without Wings
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
Letter to John Pitts (21 January 1776) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/3sdms10.txt
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