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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental d

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other peoples minds. – Walter Bagehot

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. – Walter Bagehot

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I cant say it myself. – Patrick Campbell

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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. – Richard Armour

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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6 – Bible

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