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| Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. |
| Josh Billings |
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| Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself |
| Mark Twain |
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| Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins |
| Jules Renard |
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| Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools |
| Thomas Hobbes |
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| Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think |
| Lord Byron |
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| Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy |
| George Santayana |
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| Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man |
| Thomas Hobbes |
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| Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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| Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence |
| Joseph Joubert |
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| Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced. |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two |
| Marcel Proust |
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| Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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