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In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Holiday, Men, Hypocrisy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.