Famous quotes containing the words general and/or usage:
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)