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Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day ...more

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There a...more

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should d...more

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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-ma...more