"He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together."
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"My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings"
"You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death."
"When they remain silent, they cry out."
"The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]"
"To determine if you're human. Be silent."
"Speake fitly, or be silent wisely."
"A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent."
"A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck."
"Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers."
"The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood."
"Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily."
"Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time."
"And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree."
"Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that."
"Can thought be silent?"
"Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time."
"she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near"
"That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof."