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Letter "T" » tongues
«There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.»
«Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.»
«And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; / They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.»
«Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist,
Writer)
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Beauty,
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English tongue,
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Italian,
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«Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.»
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
Author: John Milton
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Memory
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wildernesses
«Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their tongues»
«And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.»
«For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.»
«Done to death by slanderous tongues»