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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. - Francis B

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. – Francis Bacon

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. – English Proverb

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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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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. – Anon.

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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another mans observation, not overturning it. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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