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Show THINK RATHER THAN TALK. In this country Ave are prone to talk too much. We do not sufficiently appreciate the value and beauty of silence. During and after business hours, -at the lunch and dinner tabic, we talk on and on without ceasing, as though there was nothing worth thinking about. We invented the first talking machine ma-chine and no American is considered properly equipped unless he can talk- at all times and upon all subjects. - Now talk is. of course, very necessary. Information Infor-mation must be imparted and ideas exchanged; it is essential to mental companionship and develops our facility of expression. But there is no necessity for the endless and eternal talk in which so many of us indulge. A man constantly talking is like a rattly. noisy piece of machinery, and no one is ever the w-iscr as a result of his talking. There is a great force and value in silence. It enables U3 to think. It forms and expresses character. char-acter. The. great men of the world were relatively silent men; they talked only when they had something some-thing to say, and the greatest of them said but very little. We should study the beauty of silence and develop de-velop our thinking power rather than our talking power. |