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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.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)

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    言葉-辞書に載っているほど無実で無力であり、それらを組み合わせる方法を知っている人の手に渡ると、善と悪に対してどれほど強力になるか。

    woorden - zo onschuldig en machteloos als ze zijn, zoals ze in een woordenboek staan, hoe krachtig voor goed en kwaad ze worden in de handen van iemand die ze weet te combineren.

    單詞-就像站在字典中一樣無辜和無能為力,它們在知道如何將它們組合在一起的人的手中變得有多麼強大的善與惡。

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