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"I feel that in many respects I and my assistants are simply pioneers, pushing our way experimentally through an untrodden forest, where no white mans axe has been before us."
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Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
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