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• ""The last word" is the most dangerous of internal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell."
  By: Douglas William Jerrold
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• "Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy."
  By: Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt)
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• "Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?"
  By: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
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• ""Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us from the destructive power of words! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life!"
  By: Mary Howitt
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• "Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro."
  By: James Howell (Howel), Of Words
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• "It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (389)
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• "Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (105)
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• "Winged words."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XX, 331), (Pope's translation)
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• "Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. I, l. 332), (Pope's translation)
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• "To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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• "The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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• "The smallest word has some unguarded spot, and danger lurks in i without a dot."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "For words are wise men's counters--they do but reckon by them--but they are the money of fools."
  By: Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan (pt. I, ch. IV, sc. 15)
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• "Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
  By: Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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• "On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words."
  By: Hesiod, The Theogony (line 82)
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