The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
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Sunday, December 07, 2025
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Post #2745
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.
—Cicero
—Cicero
Friday, March 09, 2018
Post #2530
Words are good, But they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words; the spirit in which we act is the great matter.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Friday, August 15, 2014
Post #1620
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
—William Hazlitt
—William Hazlitt
Monday, January 13, 2014
Post #1456
Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words; the spirit in which we act is the great matter.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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