"If you have Truth on your side you can pass through the dark valley of slander, misrepresentation and abuse, undaunted, as though you wore a magic suit of mail that no bullet could enter, no arrow could pierce, You can hold your head high, toss it fearlessly and defiantly, look every man calmly and unflinchingly …
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The Crimes of the Tongue
"The second most deadly instrument of destruction is the dynamite gun [Editor's Note: this was written before the atomic bomb was invented though the point is still valid],—the first is the human tongue. The gun merely kills bodies; the tongue kills reputations and, ofttimes, ruins characters. Each gun works alone; each loaded tongue has a …