As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our >>
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, wh >>
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togeth >>
They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. >>
The more you know the less you need to say. >>
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. >>
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.