"It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word."
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"And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?"
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"You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality."
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"Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud."
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"She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
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"Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair."
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"A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable."
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"The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness."
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"The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly."
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"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."
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"My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society."
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"To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes."
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"The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak."
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"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"The third always speaks the unspeakable words."
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"I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be."
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"It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense."
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"Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow."
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"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do."
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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."
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