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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."
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"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."
"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."
"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."
"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
"You can save hundred words with just one look!"
"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"
"Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are."
"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances."
"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another."
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