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Letter "W" » Words
«Where words fail, music speaks.»
«When words leave off, music begins.»
«While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.»
«Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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combine, dictionary, for good, innocent, potent, powerless
«When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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in vain, scarce
«When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise»
«Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.»
Author: Irish Proverb
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«Where there are no women there are no good manners»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality»
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