Winged words
Verba volant, scripta manent. Words fly away, but the writing remains.
The Latin proverb suggests that written text has a power which spoken words don't, which is the power of permanence. Spoken words may be forgotten, or misremembered, while what is written stays written, grounded and binding.
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