"Words may show a man's wit but..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”
“Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.”
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”