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“As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,--"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bb0535c6ecf52f9a7bea0654630a7064798a0ad6f62c47d520b2e6f7f6d2bde6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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