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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Honesty, Integrity, Writing
1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Honesty, Pastime, Expenses
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.639, e-artnow

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brother, Honesty, Twins
"Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.

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