TOO MANY WORDS.
There is a Turkish proverb which runs: “May God preserve us from too little food and too many words.” It would be difficult to say w T hich part of this proverb oue agreed with more, says the “Listener” of London. Not to have enough to eat is very disagreeable; but can it be said that life would really be worth living were one condemned to sit under a never-ending cataract of words? We doubt it. Yet, do what we will we cannot escape from the mesh of words which snares us in our daily life; and if anyone thinks he has become their master, he is soon deceived. For words multiply and their meanings multiply more speedily than locusts, and to catch them or to pin them down is beyond our wit. * »
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 5, 17 October 1941, Page 4
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