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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.
Kind words can warm for three winters, while harsh words can chill even in the heat of summer.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they ...
The dog barks, the caravan passes on.
The words had a sort of bloom on them
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Then there is confusion
Even out of happiness, like a smoke
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Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy,"
And the lesser-known "bloviate," meaning, one imagines,
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Dear, be the tree your sleep awaits;
Worms be your words, you not safe from ours.
As words go crying after themselves, leaving the dream
Upended in a puddle somewhere
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