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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying th

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Never miss a good chance to shut up. – Will Rogers (verification of author per The Estate of Will Rogers, CMG Worldwide

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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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Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai Stevenson

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