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"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."
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"When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
"Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city."
"Share them with only people who can help you with information and support. When you meet negative people, zip your mouth."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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