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| Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley) |
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| A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. (Herman Melville) |
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| A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. (John Tudor) |
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| Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. (Lily Tomlin) |
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| I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. (Tom Lehrer) |
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| When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) |
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| He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln) |
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| Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. (John Maynard Keynes) |
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| For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. (Ingrid Bengis) |
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| Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. (Rita Mae Brown) |
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| We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. (Abigail Adams) |
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| Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) |
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| Deeds, not words shall speak me. (John Fletcher) |
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| Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. (William Butler Yeats) |
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| We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. (Cato the Elder) |
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| Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) |
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| Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers) |
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| Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. (William Penn) |
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| Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. (Aprocrypha) |
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| Use soft words and hard arguments. (English Proverb) |
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| Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?' (Johann K. Lavater) |
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| Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. (Sir Winston Churchill) |
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| Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. (Samuel Johnson) |
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| Grasp the subject, the words will follow. (Cato the Elder) |
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