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It would talk; Lord, how it talked!

Whose talk is of bullocks.

But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.

With vollies of eternal babble.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.

He who talks much cannot always talk well.

Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War.

Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in the radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.

I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.