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| Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. | | Josh Billings | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy | | George Santayana | |
| 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 | |
| Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence | | Joseph Joubert | |
| Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect | | Blaise Pascal | |
| 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 | |
| Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
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