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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to g

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. – John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. – John Ruskin

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. – Attributed to Robert Benchley by Evan Esar in 1949, however a similar saying alr

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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. – Robert Quillen

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Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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As a matter of fact, have you never noticed that most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness? – Margaret Millar, The Weak-Eyed Bat, 1942

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