“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

—  Sam Rayburn

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lawmaker from Bonham, Texas 1882–1961

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Source: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 13 (p. 180)

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