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I have found that when one is embarrassed usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking or thinking about it and go at something else.
Abraham Lincoln. A Treasury of Lincoln Quotations by Fred Kerner, 1965.
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Talking very much and lying are cousins.
The Antiquity of Proverbs by Dwight Edwards Marvin, 1922.

Talking Statues of Rome

They are so called because under the cover of darkness, people used to stick on them satirical sayings and quips critical of the papal government.

Knopf Guide:  Italy, 1998.