“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.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Simplified Meaning:
Even though words seem harmless when you see them in a dictionary, they can be very powerful for either helping or harming people when someone skillful uses them together.
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