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" ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. "
The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs - Page 317
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. — Goldsmith. SPELLING. — It is a shame for a man to be so ignorant of this little art (spelling)...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 7

Electronic journals - 1853 - 748 pages
...time, in his paper in The See, produces it in the well-known words : " Men who know the world hold that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them." Then comes Talleyrand, who is reported to have said: " La parole n'a ete donnee a rhomme que pour deouiser...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 pages
...best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' 1 Originally in No. iii. of " The Bee." See p. 37. " Ste Yol. iii. p. 37 When we reflect on the manner...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have thorn " redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants " as to conceal them." But the original of this thought, which Talleyrand turned to such profligate use in his maxim that...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires, is the most likely person to find redress ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find, that...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1854 - 618 pages
...several kinds of brutal faces in human features. ' I remember in the life of the famous Prince 1 ' The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' Goldsmith's Bee, No. 3. (Works, vol. ip 51, Putnam's ed. ) The most recent form in which I remember...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...several kinds of brutal faces in human features. a I remember in the life of the famous Prince • ' ' The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' Goldsmith's Bee, No. 3. (Works, vol. ip 51, Putnam's eJ.) The most recent form in which I remember...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...several kinds of brutal faces in human features. 2 I remember in the life of the famous Prince 1 ' The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1 Goldsmith's Bee, No. 8. (Works, vol. ip 51, Putnam's ed.) The most recent form in which I remember...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 538 pages
...best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to coneeal them.1 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1854 - 614 pages
...'• Men of the world," says be, in one of the pajiei-s of the " Bee," " maintain that the true end of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal tbem." How often is this quoted as one of the subtle remarks of the fiue-witted Talleyrand ! " The...
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