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TONGUE
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[ Also see Babblers Conversation Dentistry Eloquence Gossip Language Loquacity Mouth Oratory Rumor Silence Slander Speech Talk Talking Teeth Voice Words ]

All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
  Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
    And now the happy season once more fits
      That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;
        For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
          When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.
      - William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
         (l. 325)

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
      - Jonathan Swift

In the use of the tongue God hath distinguished us from beasts, and by the well or ill using it we are distinguished from one another; and therefore, though silence be innocent as death, harmless as a rose's breath to a distant passenger, yet it is rather the state of death than life.
      - Jeremy Taylor

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.
      - Theognis of Megara

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.
      - Theognis of Megara

Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
  That runs for ages without winding up?
      - Edward Young, Love of Fame
         (satire I, l. 281)

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