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“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Frag. 6.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a5e0792f10b677f8268beb27c32d5a3e51824015828e74f0edfc56b6282f0189
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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