"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions."
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"No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something."
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"When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home."
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"Relief loosens tongues beyond measure."
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"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!"
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"You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men."
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"The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue."
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"How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off."
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"Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness."
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"A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation."
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"She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped."
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"Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue."
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"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue."
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"The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue."
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"An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever."
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"If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in."
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"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"
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"A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic."
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"Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle."
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"The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing"
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