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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. -- Pythagoras
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. -- Eric Idle
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. -- Eric Idle
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. -- George Eliot
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak. -- Al-Ghazali

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