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Quotes About Mutes

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
~ Charles Dickens
The good painter should paint two main things, and these are man and the intention of his mind [concetti della mente sua]; while the first is easy, the second is difficult, because it has to be captured through the gestures and the movements of the limbs, and these should be learned from mutes, who better actualize them than any other sort of man.
~ Francesca Fiorani
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.
~ Carson McCullers
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place, his work noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
~ Charles Dickens