law of the tongue

English

Proper noun

law of the tongue

Appropriate control of one's words.
- 1922, Louis Albert Banks, The new ten commandments, and other sermons, page 16:
  How close the Psalmist came to the proper law of the tongue when he exclaimed: "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord"

See also

Old Tom (orca) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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