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