“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“4795. The Tongue breaketh the Bone, tho' it hath none it self.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; Yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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