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• To say the right thing at the right time, keep quiet most of the time.
• Homer: A whole week of just father and son. See you at dinner.
  [both walk off whistling] Bart: What time?...
• A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one
  no more right to say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down. -- Johnso...
• It is hard for me to find the right thing to say when I find myself in a room full of cockroaches.
• Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out the right thing to do.
  Now, it is not only necessary to do the right thing, but to do it in the right way and the only problem you have is what is the right thing to do and what is the right way to do it....
• Right you are if you say you are -- obscurely. -- TIME, 30-Dec-77
• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say.
  And then say it with the utmost levity. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say.
  And then say it with the utmost levity. -- G.B. Shaw...
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  -- Dorothy Nevill...