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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
  -- Emerso...
• When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.
  -- Ben Frankli...
• He who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know. -- Lao Tzu
• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. -- Lao Tsu
• To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
• BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent...Loudness is impotence.
  -- Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) "Aphorisms on Man" (c.1788)...
• Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again?
  How strange it seems, and new! -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Memorabilia, i...
• Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said
  If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market....