"I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either."
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"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love."
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"[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English."
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"Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain."
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"Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth."
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"Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."
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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
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"The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator."
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"You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young."
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"The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day."
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"My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue."
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"Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too."
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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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"To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue."
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"He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
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"There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart."
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"He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced."
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"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
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"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
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