All the Words

What if I knew “all” the words of the English language? For each and every subject and occasion, I could rummage around in my mind to craft exactly the right phrase: horses for courses.

But if I knew all the words, wouldn’t there be some that I would probably never need? After all, I manage alright knowing only some of them now.

Would I stop to consider those infrequently-used objects once in a while? Would I look at them like the glass jars on my workbench filled with miscellaneous screws and nails and nameless pieces of metal—specialized solutions waiting indefinitely for improbable problems to arise? Would I weigh throwing them out? Or would I be tempted to press them into service, even if they weren’t quite the right selection, or it wasn’t quite the right occasion?

Would this post be improved by better words or better thinking?