"A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]"
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"That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God."
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"The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]"
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"The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue."
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"Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue."
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"So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear."
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"There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there."
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"Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another."
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"She is written in a foreign tongue."
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"Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other."
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"Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God."
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"Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor"
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"Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally."
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"The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind."
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"Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail."
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"From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey."
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"Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it."
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"Avoid witticisms at the expense of others."
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"Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums."
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