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For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.
For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.
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.
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
Miss not the discourse of the elders.
Miss not the discourse of the elders.
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves read more
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out
like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded read more
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your
members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
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
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.