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Tongue

(noun) The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

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"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare
"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue."
— John Muir
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
— Benjamin Franklin
"The tongue like a sharp knife. Kills without drawing blood."
— Gautama Buddha

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