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Una parola o forma di dire non ? buona perch? ? nel Vocabulario, ma ? nel Vocabulario perch? era buona anche prima di esservi.
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Translation: A word or a form of speech is not good because it is in the dictionary, but is in the dictionary because it was good before it found its way there.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 434.

 

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