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- Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
- Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
- The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
- Anonymous
- They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
- There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.
- Anonymous
- Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
- James Clarke (1854 - 1916)
- Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
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