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"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
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"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."
"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
"The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness."
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong."
"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."
"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."
"She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl! Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her."
"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."
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