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• "Youth is too hasty with words. [Ger., Schnell fertig ist die Jugend mit dem Wort.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wallenstein's Tod (II, 2, 99)
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• "Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them."
  By: Frederick Saunders
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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."
  By: George Santayana
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• "Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]"
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (V)
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• "One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other."
  By: Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech at St. Louis
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• "He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."
  By: John Ray (Wray), On Creation
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• "A single word often betrays a great design. [Fr., Souvent d'un grand dessein un mot nous fait juger.]"
  By: Jean Baptiste Racine, Athalie (II, 6)
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• "An unmeaning torrent of words. [Lat., Inanis verborum torrens.]"
  By: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) 10, 7, 23
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• "To hell with those who said our good words before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]"
  By: Proverb, (Latin)
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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."
  By: Marcel Proust
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• "Words are mighty; words are living."
  By: Adelaide Anne Procter
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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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