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The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart.
The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart.
Approximate author period: c. 1594 AD · renaissance
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- Francis de Sales
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- Approximate author period: c. 1594 AD · renaissance
Approximate author-period evidence for Francis de Sales: life dates 1567 to 1622. Wikidata Q231256, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231256 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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