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Say
Only the Indispensable Words
I
suggest that every one of you should try - oh! not
for long, just for one hour a day - to say nothing
but the absolutely indispensable words. Not one more,
not one less.
Take
one hour of your life, the one which is most convenient
for you, and during that time observe yourself closely
and say only the absolutely indispensable words.
At
the outset, the first difficulty will be to know what
is absolutely indispensable and what is not. It is
already a study in itself and every day you will do
better.
Next,
you will see that so long as one says nothing, it
is not difficult to remain absolutely silent, but
as soon as you begin to speak, always or almost always
you say two or three or ten or twenty useless words
which it was not at all necessary to say.
-THE
MOTHER
( Vol. 3, p. 259)
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