http://www.thinkexist.com Your Quotations website en-us Copyright ® ThinkExist 1999-2006 info@thinkexist.com Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST "Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground" http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/noah_webster/