Quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton 

"Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words;
and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words.
It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word."

Quote by:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
Source:
Illustrated London News
 
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