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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, read more
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to read more
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.")
[Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]
To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.")
[Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have read more
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false read more
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false prophets.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read more
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
