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Tongue quotes

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“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“It is not, nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue!” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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