the pen is mightier than the sword

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英文释义

谚语
  1. More influence and power can be usurped by writing than by fighting. idiomatic,metonymically
    — If the pen is mightier than the sword in American history, it is more likely the pen of a novelist than the typewriter of a reporter — Harriet Beecher Stowe stimulating antislavery sentiment or Upton Sinclair enlisting citizens in outrage against the food-processing industry.

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反义词
actions speak louder than words

词源

This phrasing due to Bulwer-Lytton, 1839.
The sentiment is traditional, and has many antecedents; see Wikipedia.
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