About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The sharp employ the sharp.
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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