"I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me"
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"I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own."
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"He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]"
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"Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]"
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"The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]"
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"Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good."
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"To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none."
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"Facts may speak for themselves."
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"Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject."
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"there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak"
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"Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of."
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"Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say."
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"You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing."
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"We are more anxious to speak than to be heard."
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"If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth."
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"To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left."
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"I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth."
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"It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?"
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"I like how I write better than how I speak."
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"Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily."
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