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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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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. – Rebecca West, “There is No Conversation,” 1934

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. – Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Discretion,” Proverbial Philosophy

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. – Orson Rega Card

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. – George Barzan

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