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Words may be deeds.
Aesop

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.
Winston Churchill

Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
T.S. Elliot

You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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!
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
William Hazlitt

Words are... the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
Coventry Patmore

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - tis' the difference between the lighting bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain

Better one word too few than one too many.
Maltese saying

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