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• "They say . . . That, putting all his words together, 'Tis three blue beans in one blue bladder."
  By: Matthew Prior, Alma (canto I, l. 26)
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• "Each word-catcher, that lives on syllables."
  By: Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (166)
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• "In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold: Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 333)
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• "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 309)
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• "Words will build no walls."
  By: Plutarch, Life of Pericles, Cratinus ridiculed the long wall Pericles proposed to build
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• "We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Pseudolus (I, 3, 135)
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• "On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations."
  By: Wendell Phillips
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• "The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]"
  By: Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (II)
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• "Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (II, 734)
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• "Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ad Liviam (9)
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• "Things were first made, then words."
  By: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife
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• "All words are prejudices."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary."
  By: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
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• "So spake those wary foes, fair friends in look, And so in words great gifts they gave and took, And had small profit, and small loss thereby."
  By: William Morris (1), Jason (bk. VIII, 379)
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