"Words - so innocent and…" — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Les mots si innocents et impuissants qu'ils soient en se tenant dans un dictionnaire combien ils deviennent puissants pour le bien et le mal entre les mains de celui qui sait les combiner.

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