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[ PHYSICAL PLANT]
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| ... answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time. Sir 20:7 A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but a babbler and a fool will regard no time. Sir 20:8 He that useth many words shall be abhorred; and he that taketh to himself authority ... |
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[ MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, GERMANY & AUSTRIA]
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| ... indeed the virtue of a confessor. And assuredly, the secret man heareth many confessions. For who will open himself, to a blab or a babbler? But if a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open; and as in confession, the ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... had grasped of our code. But to be melancholy with humorists, gay with the frivolous, and politic with ambitious souls; to listen to a babbler with every appearance of admiration, to talk of war with a soldier, wax enthusiastic with philanthropists over the good of the nation, and to give ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... very closely to the remarks that fell one by one from Poiret''s lips like water dripping from a leaky tap. When once this elderly babbler began to talk, he would go on like clockwork unless Mlle. Michonneau stopped him. He started on some subject or other, and wandered on through ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... If her gentle, questioning eyes happened to rest on him at such times, something very like a blush rose into his face, and the babbler was silenced with a terribly significant look. It was enough for her to say, when he threatened an act of cruelty and injustice, "Father, is ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... large quantity. Blaud, to slap, pelt. Blaw, blow. Blaw, to brag. Blawing, blowing. Blawn, blown. Bleer, to blear. Bleer''t, bleared. Bleeze, blaze. Blellum, a babbler; a railer; a blusterer. Blether, blethers, nonsense. Blether, to talk nonsense. Bletherin'', talking nonsense. Blin'', blind. Blink, a glance, a moment. Blink, to glance, to ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... anything to the advancement of science or the declaration of the faith, this was instantly poured still fresh into our ears, ungarbled by any babbler, unmutilated by any trifler, but passing straight from the purest of wine-presses into the vats of our memory to be clarified. But whenever it ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... the Mahdi had broken up and scattered every group of them. "Away!" he had cried. "Away with your uncleanness and deception." And the foulest babbler of them all, hot with the exercise of the indecent gestures wherewith he illustrated his filthy tale, had slunk off like a pariah dog. As ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... such a thing. Invisible, inorganic, on the other hand, there is: in Philosophe saloons, in Oeil-de-Boeuf galleries; in the tongue of the babbler, in the pen of the pamphleteer. Her Majesty appearing at the Opera is applauded; she returns all radiant with joy. Anon the applauses wax fainter, ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... will not tell the tale Jehovah told to her, Can human nature not survive Without a listener? Admonished by her buckled lips Let every babbler be. The only secret people keep Is Immortality. XXV. With Flowers. If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not; And if forgetting, recollecting, How near ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is ... |
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