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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."

James Murray (lexicographer)
James Murray (lexicographer)
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.
"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."
"Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning — if you have enough of them."
"The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference."