"Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes."
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"I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut."
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"Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe."
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"I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths."
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"If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!"
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"Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth."
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"Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock."
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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
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"there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears."
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"They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!"
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"The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth."
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"One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth."
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"Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so."
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"If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty."
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"Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it."
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"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths."
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"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."
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"Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones"
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"A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?"
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"How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?"
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