John Dryden on Words

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“And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”
John Dryden
“I trade both with the living and the dead for the enrichment of our native language.”
John Dryden
“As long as words a different sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find; The word's a weathercock for every wind.”
John Dryden