Famous quotes containing the word speak:
“Most blest believer he!
Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
Thy long-expected healing wings could see,
When thou didst rise,
And what can never more be done
Did at midnight speak with the Sun!”
—Henry Vaughan (16221695)
“Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know only to talk. Thus we would not take a sea voyageif we were never to speak of itfor the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever communicating it.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“I speak French with timidity, and not flowinglyexcept when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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