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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
Maurice Switzer
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"I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."
remaining-silent
reticence
silence
Lewis Carroll
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
remaining-silent
silence
George Eliot
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
loquacity
remaining-silent
reticence
silence
William S. Burroughs
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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
psychology
remaining-silent
reticence
silence
Honoré de Balzac