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| Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence | | Samuel Butler | |
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| Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject | | Josh Billings | |
| Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
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| Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much | | William Shakespeare | |
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| Silence is the true friend that never betrays. | | Confucius | |
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| Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment | | Henry David Thoreau | |
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| Silence is true wisdom's best reply. | | Euripides | |
| Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. | | Margaret Lee Runbeck | |
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| The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
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| The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. | | John Stuart Mill | |
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