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• Silence is wonderful to listen to. -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist and poe
• A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. -- Thomas Hardy
• Freedom of speech is wonderful; right up there with the freedom not to listen.
• War makes rattling good history; but peace makes poor reading. Thomas Hardy ['The Dynasts', 1904]
• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
  By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy...
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Modern man has lost the option of silence.