"Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it. Absolute government by dictionary would mean the arrest of this healthy process of change and growth."
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January 1, 1970

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Charles Edward Montague, quoted in Elton, Oliver, ‘’C. E. Montague: A Memoir’’, London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. Also quoted in Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, New York : Crown Publishers, 1978 (pg. 216).