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| During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel |
| Aristotle |
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| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. |
| Socrates |
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| Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass |
| Sir John Vanbrugh |
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| Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. |
| Joseph Conrad |
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| I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it |
| Voltaire |
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| I live on good soup, not on fine words. |
| Moliere |
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| I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. |
| Mae West |
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| I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? |
| Stephen Wright |
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| If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. |
| George Eliot |
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| In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl' |
| Tom Lehrer |
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| In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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