Mark Twain Quotes About Silence
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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
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The truth hurts, but silence kills.
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