2. Are not easy to find.
I am not so vain as to think that any one can pretend to attempt the perfect reforming the
languages of the world, no not so much as of his own country, without rendering himself ridiculous. To require
that men should use their words constantly in the same sense, and for none but determined and uniform ideas,
would be to think that all men should have the same notions, and should talk of nothing but what they have clear
and distinct ideas of: which is not to be expected by any one who hath not vanity enough to imagine he can
prevail with men to be very knowing or very silent And he must be very little skilled in the world, who thinks that
a voluble tongue shall accompany only a good understanding; or that men's talking much or little should hold
proportion only to their knowledge.
