'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
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Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.
Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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