"Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards."
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"Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say."
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"We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech."
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"Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place."
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"Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
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"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."
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"There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."
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"I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it."
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"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue."
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"What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style."
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"I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that."
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"Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech."
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"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes."
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"I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence."
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"Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs."
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"In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity."
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"Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions."
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"Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver."
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"No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea."
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"Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier."
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