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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Tongue

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!"

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Tongue

"RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Tongue

"See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Tongue

"My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better."

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