"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"One must steer, not talk."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Novelist

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"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

Elliott Smith, American Musician

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"I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast."

Mary Todd Lincoln, American First Lady

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"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"

Art Buchwald, American Journalist

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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

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"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

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"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

"One must steer, not talk."

"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

"I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast."

"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"

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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

"The mob is the mother of tyrants."

"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."

"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."