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The vice of "verbalism" can be defined as the bad habit of using words without regard for the thoughts they should convey and without awareness of the experiences to which they should refer. It is playing with words. As the two tests we have suggested indicate, "verbalism" is the besetting sin of those who fail to read analytically. Such readers never get beyond the words. They possess what they read as a verbal memory that they can recite emptily. (P. 127)

Je ne me fîerai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire. Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

The answer cannot be found In the writing of others, Or the words of a trained mind In a precious world of memories; We find ourselves confined

Empty words degrade language.

Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.