His ears, indeed, have had a very easy time of it, but their inactivity has been dearly purchased at the expense of his tongue.
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Preface, p. xiiCharles Caleb Colton
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It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions.
Charles Dickens
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul — to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right ... Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly, but firmly with all your classmates; you will find it the policy which wears best. Above all do not appear to others what you are not.
Robert E. Lee
I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect life-partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.
Siddharth Katragadda
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
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