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1. Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.
2. One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.
3. No particular endowments are requisite to give a finish to the art of cursing. The basest and meanest of mankind swear with as much tact and skill as the most refined.
4. It is what men see that gives value to what we say.
5. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
6. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
7. Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is seldom found.
8. And the common people heard Him gladly, for He taught them as one having authority. These sentences reveal the very heart of effective speaking.
9. Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
10. When I want to speak let me think first. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid.
