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I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
Author:
Stephanie Zimbalist
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Author:
Xun Zi
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I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.
Author:
Dick York
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Author:
Xenocrates
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Author:
John Whittier
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Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Author:
Emma Watson
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Author:
Voltaire
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
Author:
William Tyndale
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Author:
Mao Tung
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Author:
Paul Tillich
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What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Author:
Frederick Tennyson
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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
Author:
Max Sydow
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I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'
Author:
Rod Steiger
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Author:
Richard Steele
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I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
Author:
Peter Steele
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Author:
Sophocles
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The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
Author:
Red Smith
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I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
Author:
Gene Simmons
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Author:
Hu Shih
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
Author:
John Schlesinger
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If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
Author:
Julian Sands
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Author:
Sallust
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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
Author:
Richard Petty
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
Author:
Brad Paisley
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Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Author:
Flannery O'Connor
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There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
Author:
Peter Noone
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By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
Author:
John Newcombe
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Author:
Knute Nelson
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Author:
Ogden Nash
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This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
Author:
Emily Murphy
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Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.
Author:
Jamie Muir
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I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Author:
Alice Miller
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Author:
Maimonides
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
Author:
Maimonides
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After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
Author:
Robert MacNeil
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
Author:
Karl Liebknecht
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Author:
Andrew Lang
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I will speak with a straight tongue.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Author:
Henry James
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Author:
Washington Irving
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Author:
Washington Irving
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Author:
Washington Irving
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Author:
Washington Irving
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Author:
Horace
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
Author:
Anna Held
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I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
Author:
Katherine Heigl
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That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Author:
Matthew Hale
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Author:
Ellen Glasgow
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Author:
John Ford
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Love's tongue is in his eyes.
Author:
John Fletcher
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Author:
Robert Fitzgerald
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Author:
Euripides
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You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.
Author:
Will Estes
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Author:
Quintus Ennius
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
Author:
Jennifer Ellison
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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Author:
Black Elk
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Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
Author:
William Drummond
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There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
Author:
William Drummond
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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
Author:
John Donne
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Author:
Diogenes
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Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Author:
Thomas D'Evelyn
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A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.
Author:
William DeVault
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I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
Author:
Jonathan Davis
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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Author:
Davy Crockett
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Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
Author:
David Coverdale
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Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
Author:
Hernando Cortes
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Author:
Barry Cornwall
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Author:
Charles Colton
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Author:
Irvin Cobb
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
Author:
Jesus Christ
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It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
Author:
John Carpenter
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Author:
Abraham Cahan
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
Author:
George Bush
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The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Author:
Buddha
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Author:
Hal Borland
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
Author:
Rachel Bilson
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Author:
George Bancroft
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Author:
Saint Avila
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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Author:
Roger Ascham
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Author:
Konrad Adenauer
