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“He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 930.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cfd1284c8b7b877ced241560e5f5bd47d5f10b98ef7e10a59788c3c0552e2c28
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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