"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

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"Your silence will not protect you."

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"When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence."

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"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."

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"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."

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"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

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