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Noise: a stench in the ear. - Ambrose Bierce

Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. – Ambrose Bierce

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Censorship
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce

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great
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Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. – Ambrose Bierce

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Laughter
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Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. – Gwendolyn Bennett

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Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. – Edward Hoagland

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays. – Confucius

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All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. – Rabban Gamaliel

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