Nathaniel HawthorneWords - 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.
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"Words so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good or evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." This quote is from Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. It was written after he had been struck by an oncoming vehicle.
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