“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
Source: The Passionate Pilgrim
“As long as words a different sense will bear,
And each may be his own interpreter,
Our airy faith will no foundation find;
The word's a weathercock for every wind.”
— John Dryden, book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 462–465.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
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