...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires is the most likely person to find redress, and ore polite, they con When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find that they...

...best knows how to keep his necessities private is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them.2 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears...

...best knows how to keep his necessities private is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them.2 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears...

...dissimulation. "Men of the world," says he, in one of his papers of the Bee, '' maintain that the true end of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." How often is this quoted as one of the subtle remarks of the flne-witted Talleyrand I The Good-Natured...

...been traced. " The true use of speech," says Jack Spindle in Goldsmith's " Citizen of the World," " is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." But Young before him had written : — Where Nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only...

...has been traced. 'The true use of speech,' says Jack Spindle in Goldsmith's ' Citizen of the World,' 'is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' But Young before him had written : — And, before Young, South had preached, in one of his wittiest...

...Goldsmith's version— to be found in his paper on Language In The Bee, No. iii., October 20, 1759— runs " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as' to conceal them." Young's version—' Love of Fame," Sat li.. 1. 307,— Is :— "When nature's end of language is declined...

...hill which few may hope to climb ; duty is the path that all may tread. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. While Selfishness...

...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. 5193 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' 5194 Goldsmith : The Bee. Oct. 20, 1759. Speech is . . . the art of . . .stifling and suspending thought....

...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. 5193 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1 5194 Goldsmith : The Hee. Oct. 20, 1759. Speech is . . . the art of ... stifling and suspending...