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• Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
  -- Voltaire...
• Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Dialogue xiv, Le Chapon et la Poularde (l763)...
• Language exists to conceal true thought. -- Talleyrand
• Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Wisdom
• Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. -- William Faulkne
• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
  -- William Faulkne...
• Homer [beginning a speech]: If I could just say a few words.
  .. I'd be a better public speaker. Episode: 3F20, Much Apu About Nothing...
• Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. -- H. H. Munro ("Saki") (1870-1916)
• I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 1...