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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Words
Thomas Reid

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Words
Jules Renard

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Words are the small change of thought.
Words
Jules Renard

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

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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Understanding
Jean Rostand

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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Blasphemy
Salman Rushdie

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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Writers and Writing
Bertrand Russell

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Wisdom
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Speakers and Speaking
Herbert Samuel

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Words are loaded pistols.
Words
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Friends and Friendship
William Shakespeare

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Words pay no debts.
Debt
William Shakespeare

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Dishonesty
Socrates

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Arts and Artists
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Words
Robert Southey

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Words
Herbert Spencer

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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Gossip
Sir Richard Steele

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Lies and Lying
George Steiner

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Words
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Freedom of Speech
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
Vocabulary
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Regret
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Writers and Writing
Jonathan Swift

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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Style
Jonathan Swift

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