Caroline Starr Rose

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Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  1. SHANNON O'DONNELL says

    January 6, 2012 at 4:33 pm

    I’ve always LOVED that quote, Caroline. *sigh*

    P.S. I can’t tell you how beautiful I think MAY B. is. . . W-O-W.

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  2. Dawn Simon says

    January 6, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    Really cool quote!

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  3. Caroline Starr Rose says

    January 6, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    Shannon, thank you!! She’s very special to me.

    Dawn, isn’t it cool? Reminds me of The pen is mightier than the sword.

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  4. Faith E. Hough says

    January 6, 2012 at 11:38 pm

    Beautiful! I’ve never read that before, though I’ve been a longtime admirer of Hawthorne’s powerful writing.

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