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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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Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. – Robert Burton

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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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The words of the world want to make sentences. – Gaston Bachelard

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