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  Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

  John Ray

  Topics in Beauty, Power, Smile

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• We have got this Damocles’ sword of Standard and Poor’s hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain’s credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

  Philip Hammond

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• When you’re 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you’re 21 and you’ve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren’t really good. OK, let’s be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  Patrick Rothfuss

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  I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

  Alexandre Dumas

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• The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

  Benjamin Whichcote

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• Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

  George Rogers Clark

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• The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

  George Rogers Clark

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  Tags in Sword, Handsome

• One sword keeps another in the sheath.

  George Herbert

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• Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

  Thomas Malory

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• And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

  Robert Burton

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• At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

  Richard Cobden

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• The oil can is mightier than the sword.

  Everett McKinley Dirksen

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  Tags in Oil, Sword, Comparison

• Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Tags in Scabbard, Sword, Poetry, Lightning, Consumes

• I’ve looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I’m in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

  Neil Diamond

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• Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

  Tim Roth

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• One sword keeps another in its scabbard.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

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• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  Zora Neale Hurston

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• Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

  Terry Brooks

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  Tags in Published, Sword