"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
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"Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel."
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"Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins."
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"They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once."
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"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"
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"Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . ."
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"When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics."
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"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."
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"There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions."
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"Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face."
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"thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think."
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"Books will speak plain when counselors blanch."
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"Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind."
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"English is the easiest language to speak badly."
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"It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent."
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"...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone."
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"Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare."
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"The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?"
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"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols."
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"What we can't speak, we say in silence."
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