Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

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Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

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The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

Larry King

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The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Vera Nazarian

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Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.

Giggles can spread from person to person.

So can blushing.

But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Vera Nazarian

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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Andrew Solomon

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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

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Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

Tarjei Vesaas

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Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Shannon Hale

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He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.

Cormac McCarthy

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