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Speak what you think today in hard WORDS and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard WORDS again, though it contradict every thing you said today.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sticks and stones may break my bones, But WORDS can never harm me.	Old English Rhym
Strong and bitter WORDS indicate a weak cause.	Victor Hugo
Style in painting is the same as in writing, as power over materials, whether WORDS or colours, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.	Sir Joshua Reynolds
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with WORDS is cheap in deeds.	Sir Walter Raleigh
The act of repeating erroneously the WORDS of another.	Ambrose Bierce
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar WORDS.	Hippocrates
The more ideas a man has, the fewer WORDS he takes to express them. Wise men do not talk to kill time, they talk to save it.	Bruce Barton
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two WORDS when one will do.	Thomas Jefferson
The oldest, shortest WORDS – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.	Pythagoras
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of WORDS is in the council.	Homer, The Iliad
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth WORDS which were better unspoken.	Homer, The Odyssey
The worst of WORDS.	William Shakespeare
There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with WORDS.	Kate Seredy
There is a time for many WORDS, and there is also a time for sleep.	Homer, The Odyssey