Hold your tongue Quote by Selma Lagerlöf

“Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.”

Selma Lagerlöf

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Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

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“Assim manda a justiça - a inteligência e a sabedoria foram e são ainda hoje as qualidades que transformam o mendigo em príncipe.”

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No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

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More die in flight than in battle.

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“What Gosta,' he said to himself, 'can you no longer endure? You have been hardened in poverty all of your life; you have heard every tree in the forest, every tuft in the meadows preach to you of sacrifice and patience. You, brought up in a country where the winter is severe, and the summer joy is very short, have…

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“Sometimes it is best to hold your tongue and walk away so bitterness will not depart from your lips and defile you.”

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“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. The little five-year-old boy, on…

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