work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5063,"",Reading,2014-03-04 03:25:39 UTC,"It is with Thoughts, as it is with Words; and with both, as with Men; they may grow old, and die. Words tarnished, by passing thro' the mouths of the Vulgar, are laid aside as inelegant, and obsolete. So Thoughts, when become too common, should lose their Currency; and we should send new metal to the Mint, that is, new meaning to the Press. The Division of tongues at Babel did not more effectually debar men from making themselves a name (as the Scripture speaks,) than the too great Concurrence, or Union of tongues will do for ever. We may as well grow good by another's Virtue, or fat by another's Food, as famous by another's Thought. The world will pay its Debt of Praise but once; and instead of applauding, explode a second Demand, as a Cheat.
(pp. 13-14 in 1759 ed.)",,23440,INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY.,"""So Thoughts, when become too common, should lose their Currency; and we should send new metal to the Mint, that is, new meaning to the Press.""",Coinage,2014-03-04 03:25:39 UTC,""