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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 35.

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Learning to Hold One’s Tongue

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

SOME men are too talkative by half, and remind me of the young man who was sent to Socrates to learn oratory. On being introduced to the philosopher, he talked so incessantly that Socrates asked for double fees. "Why charge me double?" said the young fellow. "Because," said the orator, "I must teach you two sciences; the one how to hold your tongue, and the other how to speak."—C. H. Spurgeon.