Quote by Ben Jonson
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. – Ben Jonson

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

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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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