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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

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Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

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