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“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”

Littles Said Sometimes Reason Purpose Loss Answers Secret Succeed Conversation Wit Admire Distrust Hearing Loss

Book:Poor Richard Day by Day

Source: Poor Richard Day by Day

“If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.”

Ifs May Literature Loss Source Being True More Time Files Anecdotes Hearing Loss

Author:Anthony Holden

“One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.”

Said Loss Audience Heard Hearing Loss Lecturing

Book:Gertrude Stein: Selections

Source: Gertrude Stein: Selections

“When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.”

Littles Loss Cutting Crime Village Throat Merry Brooks Burglars Chimes Hearing Loss Enterprising

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.”

Has Beens President Loss Ears Presses Bunch Tone Monkeys Hearing Loss Gambit

Author:John Chancellor

“Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.”

Light Joy Voice Loss Sweet Flow Ears Sight Clouds Charm Colour Melody Rejoice Echoes Luminous Hearing Loss Sweet Voice

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse

“But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.”

Humans Stills Loss Ears Animated Hearing Loss

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.”

Ifs Knows Matter Problem Loss Laughing Hearing Hearing Loss Punchlines

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.”

Loss Terrible Hearing Terrible Things Hearing Loss

Author:Pete Townshend