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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
These are some quotes by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist, who lived between July 4, 1804 and May 19, 1864.
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.