When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow.

Robert South (1634-1716) English churchman and preacher
(Attributed)

In Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1805 ed.).

 
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