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Alice Duer Miller Quotes: Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.
         

Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.


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Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.
         



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Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.



And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.





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