"The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak."
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"Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth."
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"Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth"
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"You're short on ears and long on mouth."
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"From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink."
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"Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut."
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"Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut."
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"You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned."
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"Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!"
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"There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
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"Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years."
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"with your name on my mouth and a kiss that never broke away from yours."
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"More idiots should just shut their mouths."
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"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open."
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"You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt."
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"It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal"
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"She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile."
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"If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more."
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