| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9996 |
| QUOTATION: | Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (10044 B.C.), Roman general, political leader, and first Roman dictator. Concerning Analogy, quoted in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 1.10.4. |
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