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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 914.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6349b3e0addfcf1e57d562a3764155987f4179e66c08ffa1dfc00b963a414651
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though…”
Plutarch
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No creature smarts so little as a fool.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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