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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do