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Friday, 5 September 2008
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"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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Browse Quotations about Words

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
A single word often betrays a great design.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.


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