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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is no

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

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Words of love, are works of love. – William R. Alger

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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