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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.: John Viscount Morley
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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