"The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense."
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"Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . ."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar."
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"A maiden hath no tongue--but thought."
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"Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools."
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"By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me."
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"Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting."
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"To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent."
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"I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit."
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"Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head."
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"The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not."
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"If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth."
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"The stillest tongue can be the truest friend."
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"At birth the Devil touched my tongue."
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"Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman."
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"If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues."
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"Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator."
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"The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue."
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"My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,” said the demon smugly."
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"Those women like to see their tongues dance."
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