To speak much is one thing — to speak to the point another!
To speak much is one thing — to speak to the point another!
To speak much is one thing — to speak to the point another!
To speak much is one thing — to speak to the point another!
To speak much is one thing — to speak to the point another!
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To speak much is one thing

— to speak to the point another!
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May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban — Sophocles
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Evil gains work their punishment. — Sophocles, Fragments
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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes — Anne Carson, Antigonick
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