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"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings."
"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."
"Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion."
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"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
"I don't want everyone to like me, I should think less of myself if some people did."
"That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything."
"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
"One never said the things one wanted - one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something."
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