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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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• "Words are the voice of the heart."
  By: Confucius
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• "For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed what we say."
  By: Confucius
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• "A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced."
  By: Confucius
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• "Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Mum's the word."
  By: George Colman ("The Younger"), Battle of Hexham (act II, sc. 1)
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• "Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine."
  By: Abraham Coles
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• "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. . . . Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."
  By: William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, in a deposition during the Paula Jones/Monica Lewinsky matter
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• "Fair words butter no parsnips."
  By: John Clarke, Paroemiologia (p. 21, ed. 1639)
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• "Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader."
  By: Adam Clarke
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• "We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill."
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
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• "Words are but empty thanks."
  By: Colley Cibber, Woman's Wit (act V)
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• "Words writ in waters."
  By: George Chapman, Revenge for Honour (act V, sc. 2)
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• "The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: "It might have beans." (The did not make this up myself: 'Twas in a book upon my shelf. It's witty, but I don't deny It's rather Whittier than I.)"
  By: Guy Wetmore Carryl, How Jack found that Beans may go back on a Chap
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• "High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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• "The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is."
  By: George Carlin
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