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Surliness is incivility in speech.


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NEWTON G KIBIRINGI An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
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APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
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ROLAND BARTHES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It's a disappointing sta...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
FRANCIS BACON The best answer to bad speech is good speech
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
GEORGE T. DELACORTE Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
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GLENN GREENWALD Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence
ENGLISH PROVERB Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...
CHUANG-TZU Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...
ZHUANGZI Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
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FRANCIS QUARLES If it is difficult to define commercial speech, doesn't that chill speech?
ANTHONY KENNEDY Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information
MARK TWAIN Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
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BYRON DORGAN Silence is also speech
PROVERB A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
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DAVID STERN Silence is golden; speech is silver
AMERICAN PROVERB Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is silver; silence is golden.
SWISS PROVERB Cut [the speech] in half,
BOB SHEPPARD Silence is safer than speech.
EPICTETUS A great speech is literature.
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JACKSON KATZ Speech is great; but silence is greater.
THOMAS CARLYLE Money is property; it is not speech.
JOHN PAUL STEVENS Speech is silver but silence is golden.
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HANNAH ARENDT Song is the heroics of speech.
THOMAS CARLYLE Literature is the immortality of speech.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Speech is always bolder than action.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLON Thought is the fountain of speech.
CHRYSIPPUS Literature is the immortality of speech
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Speech is oft repented, silence never
DANISH PROVERB Speech is the image of actions
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