The awsome power of the spoken word.

Submitted by Seamus Dafydd Dives MacNemi (United States), Jun 4, 2011 at 22:28

The tongue is a two edged sword. With one edge you smite your enemy and with the other you smite yourself. Far better it is to hold your sword in its scabbard than to unsheathe it with an unskilled hand.

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