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«Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.»
«Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue»
Author: Charles Simmons
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Bigotry
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«Great anger is more destructive than the sword»
«Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.»
«God grant me a good sword and no use for it»
«A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands»
«Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your sword on me.»
«A good sword is the one left in its scabbard»
«Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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