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I believe it's actually from his nerdy friend who's into dictionaries. Ampleforth is his name.
Here's the whole quote from WikiQuote:Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.