It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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"As Eighty," from Bee Time Vine (1953, Yale University Press); written in 1923Gertrude Stein
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What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.
John Lancaster Spalding
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
Eliza Calvert Hall
Thomas has been famously plain-spoken — within the prevailing unclearess. Every poem represents an act of will with which he tries to beat a path, to habituate the microbe, to define its Christian antecedents. It is a painstaking effort: he must find a language that is exact, spare, solid, disciplined yet resonant.
R. S. Thomas
America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
Sigmund Freud
More and more, I am becoming convinced that truly I have a created a problem and have made a mistake. Although very late, with all honesty...I am asking for forgiveness from all of you, it was my fault for bringing Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan and allowing them to choke your necks. If this was my mistake, then I am truly sorry. Wait, this was more than a mistake. This was a tragedy that I brought into the lives of my people. So...so please allow me, allow me to help save you from that crisis.
Levon Ter-Petrossian
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