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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
[Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade read more
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
[Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for read more
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the read more
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
And not as Moses, which read more
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that
which is abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ.