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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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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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Give us that grand word ''woman'' once again, and let's have done with ''lady''; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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