"A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke."
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"I'm very primitive; I write with a pen."
"My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better."
"When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story."
"When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is."
"Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms."
"Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration."
"Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen."