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— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn"To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key."
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Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.
— Charlotte Bronte
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