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"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting." »Maxims of Ptahhotep
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"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another." »Sophocles
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." »David Mamet
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"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone." »Henry Bromel
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"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things
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"Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles." »Brooks Hays
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"Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness." »The Hitopadesa
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"As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." »Rowan Atkinson
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"speech is the mirror of the mind." »Seneca
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence." »Francis Bacon
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." »Publilius Syrus
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"There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech." »Ilya Ehrenburg
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"Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also." »Seneca
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"Thought is the fountain of speech." »Chrysippus
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"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action." »Pythagoras
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"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." »Aprocrypha
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"Tears at times have all the weight of speech." »Ovid
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"speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he." »Publilius Syrus
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"What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them." »Vincent McNabb
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"speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he." »Publilius Syrus
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes
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"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. (during a speech)" »Prince Phillip
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"Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech." »Julius Henry Marx
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"In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought." »Tiberius
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"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue." »Jean Baptiste Rousseau
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"Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech." »Chinese Proverb
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