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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
--_O. W. Holmes._
1877
Talent is something, but tact is everything.
--_Scargill._
1878
All talk at once, to none respect is shown.
1879
_Talking._--What a spendthrift is he of his tongue!
--_Shakespeare._
1880
They always talk who never think.
--_Prior._
1881
He who talks much is sometimes right.
--_Spanish._
1882
The talker sows, the listener reaps.
--_Italian._
1883
You can doubtless name a number of people who talk too much--including yourself!
1884
A man of sense talks little, and listens much.
--_Chinese._
1885
_A Quiet Rebuke._--When Was.h.i.+ngton's secretary excused himself for the lateness of his attendance, and laid the blame on his watch, his master quietly said--"Then you must get another watch, or I another secretary."
1886
The cost takes away the taste: I should really like the thing, but I dislike the expense.
1887
To teach is to learn twice over.
1888
Nothing dies sooner than a tear.
1889
Do not make woman weep, for G.o.d counts her tears.
--_From The Talmud._
1890
He has strangled His language in his tears.
--_Shakespeare._
1891
There are few things more beautiful than tears, whether they are shed for ourselves or others; they are the meek and silent effusions of sincere feeling.
1892
Tears sometimes have the weight of words.
