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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] (100–44 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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