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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
Francis Bacon
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The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.
Winston Churchill
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
Michel de Montaigne
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You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.
Plato
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A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.
Henry David Thoreau
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
William Shakespeare
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Francis Bacon
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Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Winston Churchill
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Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done to us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not prepared to back up with deeds, and that while our speech is always moderate, we are ready and willing to make it good. Such an attitude will be the surest possible guarantee of that self-respecting peace, the attainment of which is and must ever be the prime aim of a self-governing people.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
Charles Dickens
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Speech... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
Agatha Christie
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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
Cicero
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I fear a Man of frugal Speech —
I fear a Silent Man —
Haranguer — I can over take —
Or Babbler — entertain —
But He who weigheth — While the Rest —
Expend their further pound —
Of this Man — I am wary —
I fear that He is Grand —.
Emily Dickinson
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
Samuel Johnson
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
Epictetus
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The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
Dante Alighieri
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The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.
Mark Twain
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First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
William Shakespeare
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The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Chekhov
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Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion.
Bertrand Russell
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Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
Winston Churchill
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