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The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
—Apocrypha., Ecclesiasticus 28:17-18

Posted on June 27, 2001 at 9:36 AM

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