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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Baltasar Gracián, Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)

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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Woody Allen, American filmmaker, actor and comedian (born 1935)

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