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"Carve every word before you let it fall."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."
"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."
"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."
"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
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