The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword. Traditional Cache
The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword.
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This geocache was placed, with permission, for your Moorhead caching pleasure. Please be sure to bring your own mighty pen to sign the log.
'The pen is mightier than the sword' was coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, 1839
But, and this part, like the part above, was copied from a very reputable looking British web site (http://www.phrases.org.uk/).
Bulwer-Lytton may have coined the phrase but he was preceded by several others who expressed essentially the same idea:
George Whetstone, in Heptameron of Civil Discourses, 1582, wrote "The dashe of a Pen, is more greevous than the counterbuse of a Launce."
In Hamlet, 1602, Shakespeare gave Rosencrantz the line "... many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither."
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621 includes "From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword."
Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Thomas Paine in 1796, in which he wrote: "Go on doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword."
I take pen in hand (metaphorically) to write a congratulations to Gooffy140 for using his pen to sign in as FTF!
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