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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for

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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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – 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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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton

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

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A wise man hears one word and understands two. – Yiddish Proverb

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