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4750 E Emil Cioran Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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3395 E Johann W. von Goethe When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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4102 E Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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6180 E Mark Twain There are only two types of speakers in the world, the nervous and the liar.
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3788 E Mark Twain It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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2307 E George Eliot Blessed is the man, who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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4197 E Antonio Porchia In my silence only my voice is missing.
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3695 E William Strunk, Jr Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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4729 E Orson Scott Card METAPHOR: A way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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2372 E Anonymous Keep your words sweet-you may have to eat them.
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4222 E Joseph Joubert The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
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4281 E Anonymous Good example is half a sermon.
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2565 E Charles Caleb Colton When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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4063 E Platone Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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