"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English people in the past."

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LexicographersSocialists from EnglandAgnosticsAnglicans from the United KingdomPhilologists
Original Language: English

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Statement, near the end of his life, to Roman Dyboski. Reported in Frederick James Furnivall: A Volume of Personal Record (1911) p. 43