Careful Words

valuable (n.)

valuable (adj.)

  I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

Daniel Webster (1782-1852): Speech at Marshfield, Sept. 1, 1848. P. 433.