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As a matter of fact, have you never noticed that most conversation

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

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