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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant
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No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Ausonius
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. -Niccolo Machiavelli
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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Confucius
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Sir Francis Bacon
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. -German Proverb
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And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.

Meister Eckhart
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -Saint Jerome
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Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'

Saint Jerome
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. -Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus
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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson
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The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. -Samuel Johnson
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Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

Bill Weld
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. -Cicero
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson
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Those members have to represent their districts. They have to speak for their constituents that were so affected by this. As leader, she is trying to give them the strongest voice possible.

Jennifer Crider
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. -Henry David Thoreau
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Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Gielgud
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It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.

Henry David Thoreau
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Right now banks don't have that much security around checking accounts. Generally speaking, their losses are pretty tolerable. -Avivah Litan
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We seek to educate and nurture peace, equality, and dignity in a world hopeful and free of oppression. One of the evening's highlights is the discussion that follows each film. It offers an opportunity to speak about and listen respectfully to how others see important sensitive issues.

Mary Nelson
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One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maxwell Maltz
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Do not speak ill of the dead. -The Seven Sages
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I think Spanish media will continue to increase because of the large Spanish[-speaking] population in our country. It's a smart thing to do in the business world today.

Victor Lopez
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I'll give it my best shot, but if I don't make it, I'll keep playing hard. This has been a good experience. I came to Mexico not even speaking any Spanish, and to play in this Series, against all these players, has been great.

Ray Sadler
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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. -Aaron Copland
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