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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Abstinence
Epictetus

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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Brevity
Francois FeNelon

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She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
Flirting
Corey Ford

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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry and Poets
John Fowles

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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
Words
Anatole France

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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Wealth
Benjamin Franklin

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Action
Benjamin Franklin

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
Conflict
French Proverb

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Action
Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Words
Patricia Fripp

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Life and Living
Robert Frost

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Proverbs
R. Buckminster Fuller

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Soft words are hard arguments.
Argument
Thomas Fuller

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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Words
Ellen Glasgow

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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Words
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Words
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
Love
Arlo Guthrie

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You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
Insults
Judge Hall

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Slang
Thomas Hardy

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Words
Ernest Hemingway

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Words
Ernest Hemingway

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Words are the money of fools.
Words
Thomas Hobbes

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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Words
Thomas Hobbes

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Ideals and Idealism
Herbert Clark Hoover

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A picture is a poem without words.
Arts and Artists
Horace

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun