Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart.
--Phyllis McGinley
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Dhammachanda (noun, Pali): love or desire for the Dhamma (Dharma). Dhammachanda (blog): a collection of poems, quotations, anecdotes, and images loosely related to the Dhamma.
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