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• "Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "What if my words Were meant for deeds."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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• "Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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• "Your words bring daylight with them when you speak."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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• "Words are both better and worse than thoughts; they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin."
  By: Tryon Edwards
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• "And torture one poor word ten thousand ways."
  By: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (l. 208)
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• "I trade both with the living and the dead for the enrichment of our native language."
  By: John Dryden, Dedication to translation of The Aeneid
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• "It is used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things."
  By: Laertius Diogenes, Lives of the Philosophers (bk. I, Myson, ch. III)
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• "But words once spoke can never be recall'd."
  By: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry (l. 442)
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• "Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed."
  By: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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• "What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd."
  By: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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• "Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense."
  By: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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• "Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and prism."
  By: Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (pt. II, ch. V)
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• "There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]"
  By: Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
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• "Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality."
  By: Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski)
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• "Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."
  By: Confucius, Analects (bk. XX, ch. III)
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