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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2011-08-26

"La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée." ("We were given speech to hide our thought.") -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (better known simply as Tallyrand; b. 1754-02-02, d. 1838-05-17)

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posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 11:44am on 2011-08-26
Maybe this is where Douglas Adams got the anecdote about "The most heinous of all social diseases, telepathy," which forced a race of beings to fill their lives with useless chatter so their true thoughts would not be transmitted.
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