| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43844 |
| QUOTATION: | Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. originally published in Fortnightly Review (Dec. 1888). “Style,” p. 9, repr. In Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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