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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

The Ungoverned Tongue

My own reading affords countless instances of the greatest disasters resulting from an ungoverned tongue. When upon the marriage of Philadelphus with his sister, Sotades composed a scurrilous verse, he paid ample atonement for talking out of season by rotting for a long time in prison. He thus purchased a laugh in others by long weeping of his own.

Plutarch
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