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“It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f345d41c021625cc54838fcd7b989c04e0981495c5ff8e872deeef11d2ee3cdf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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