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Quote by Henry Adams
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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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on. – Henry Ward Beecher

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

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Words are all we have. – Samuel Beckett

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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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