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

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

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