"If you don't like your teeth, keep your mouth shut."

Restraint, Silence, Humor, Prudence

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"If you don't like your teeth, keep your mouth shut."

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"We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions."

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"Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit."

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"The line from Pulp Fiction-the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands-pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost-almost-share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

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"It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder."

John Paul Warren, American Author

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"After one and a half cocktails, finding the appropriate response is a bit of a challenge. I finally say, 'Thank you for inviting me,' and leave the less desirable 'Want to play strip poker?' in the unscrupulous part of my brain where it belongs."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

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"The less said the better."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far."

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"The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so."

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