"inside trying to get out"

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Sometimes it seems they do not have access to books of any kind. Language study seems to consist of self-reported data and occasional Google searches.
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George Orwell said something close to this in 1939; Cyril Connolly had a perhaps closer version in 1944.

Sometimes I get the impression that there are people on this list serv who do not have a copy of The Yale Book of Quotations...

Fred Shapiro

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