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Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

— Will Rogers

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

— Ciara

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

— George Dennison Prentice

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

— Zhuangzi

It's important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.

— Evan Spiegel

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

— Dorothy Day