Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving… — George Eliot · Skopia

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

1879

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Silence is golden Tact and discretion

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Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, ch. 4.

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