“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
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Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
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“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“There is more done with pens than with swords.”
This is very similar in theme to "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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