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Henry Ward Beecher: I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak…

I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

In today’s wordsI don't like those cold, precise, perfect people who never speak so as not to say anything wrong and never act so as not to do anything wrong.

Henry Ward BeecherCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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