"The unspoken word is capital. We can..." - Quote by Mark Twain
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
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“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
“It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.”
“The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.”
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“There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.”
“Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.”
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
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“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”
“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”
“Your very silence shows you agree.”