“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
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