"Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue."
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"How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots."
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"I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts."
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"The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state."
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"I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak."
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"If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth."
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"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?"
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"I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself."
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"The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior."
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"The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes."
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"I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]"
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"Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness."
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"Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside."
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"Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment."
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"The tongue talkes at the heads cost."
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"An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue."
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"One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues."
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"The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]"
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"Faire language grates not the tongue."
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"Foolish tongues talke by the dozen."
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