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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. -Nikki Giovanni
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Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language. -Clifford Stoll
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Socrates
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. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless.

Rene Descartes
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Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that. -Oscar Wilde
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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius
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Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.

John F. Kennedy
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. -Thomas Jefferson
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I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Frank Sinatra
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare
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Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.

William Shakespeare
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. -William Shakespeare
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If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned".

Epictetus
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. -Sir George Savile
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Sir George Savile
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. -Seneca
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Seneca
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There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. -Michel de Montaigne
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He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. -Alfred North Whitehead
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