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 Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
  Pythagoras

 Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters
  Samuel Johnson

 During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet
  Winston Churchill

 Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
  Terry Pratchett

 English is a funny language. A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing

 Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel

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

 Fine words! I wonder where you stole them
  Jonathan Swift

 For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
  Ingrid Bengis

 Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

 Good words cost no more than bad.
  Thomas Fuller

 Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him

 Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
  Victor Hugo

 He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary
  William Faulkner

 He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
  Joseph Conrad


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