Quote: in language, change is an evil unless evident advantage

Quotation

the chief rule which I propose to follow is, to make no innovation without a reason sufficient to balance the inconvenience of change, and such reasons I do not expect often to find. All change is of itself an evil, which ought not be hazarded but for evident advantage; as inconstancy is in every case a mark of weakness, it will add nothing to the reputation of our tongue.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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