Quote by Robert Burton
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. - Robe

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

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He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning. – Jim Bishop

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By words the mind is winged. – Aristophanes

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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Words are all we have. – Samuel Beckett

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