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Out of a dog's mouth will never come ivory tusks.
When you listen to gongs and drums, listen to the music; when you listen to someone talk, listen to his tone of voice.
Speech is the voice of the heart.
Words are the keys to the heart.
As a tiger may lose its footing on soft ground, so people may be tripped up by sweet words.
The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak.
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... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyon ...
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product rema ...
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper a ...
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