英语词汇the pen is mightier than the sword的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the pen is mightier than the sword
词源	The pen is mightier than the sword. It was Edward Bulwer- Lytton who coined the pen is mightier than the sword, in his play Richelieu (1839): Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Long before, in his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Bur- ton had written: “The pen is worse than the sword.” Cervantes, in Don Quixote (1605), expressed an entirely different point of view: “Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.” Curiously enough, two great writers, Sophocles and Demosthenes, were the sons of sword makers, the equivalent of munitions makers in our time.
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