[W]ords are grown so false, I am
                            loath to prove reason with them.
                             —William Shakespeare, 1564–1616

     Language  is  not  so much inexact as it is pernicious:
even after contrivèd limitation (confer law), there is ample
room for malice or thoughtlessness to misconstrue.

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  Epigraph. Twelfth Night, iii.1.