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Pietro Metastasio: The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be recalled; the arrow cannot be…

The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be recalled; the arrow cannot be detained which has once sped from the bow.

In today’s wordsA word, once spoken, can't be taken back, and an arrow, once shot, can't be stopped.

Pietro MetastasioCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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