"We are more anxious to speak than to be heard."
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"I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined."
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"Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better."
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"I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —"
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"I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church."
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"Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard."
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"I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out."
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"Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy."
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"I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground."
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"Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar."
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"Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of."
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