Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow and precipitates itself there from. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. (Thomas Carlyle)

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow and precipitates itself there from. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Thomas Carlyle

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