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Show The Dictionary Habit. "Yes, it's a good thing for a man to refer to the dictionary, but this practice can often le carried to excess," said a well known magazine writer. "Why, I've seen a man get so much addicted to this habit," he continued, "that he could uot write an ordinary letter without turning to the dictionary three or four times in order to ascertain some big words that he could cse. This, I think, j is a very great waste of time, as he does not express his meaning a bit better than if he had used 6ome shorter and really English words."' |