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Better slip with foot than tongue.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1734 ed.)
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Topics: error, fall, misspeak, slip, slip of the tongue, speaking
More quotes by Franklin, Benjamin Nobody talks much that does n’t say unwise things, — things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes. Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought. I can’t answer for what will turn up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1859-01), “The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,”
Atlantic Monthly
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The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, ch. 1 (1859).
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Topics: chatter, conversation, discussion, error, mistake, rambling, slip of the tongue, talk, thought-provoking
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