Three thoughts on conversation: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
A simple triple test for whether words should be spoken: true, kind, necessary.
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If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and…
— Unknown
Be careful what you hear by the grapevine, because the grapes may be sour.
— Bill Van Sickle
Brevity is the soul of wit.
— William Shakespeare
Gossip is social sewage.
— George Meredith
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams the more they are condensed, the deeper they bu…
— Southey
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. –Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1734
— Benjamin Franklin
