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“Silence is the wit of fools.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”

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Author:Jeremiah

“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.”

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Author:Plutarch

“A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Silence is the virtue of fools.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”

Silence Fool Goes On Ill Cruelty Manners Poor Richard Let Him Go

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.”

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Author:Glenway Wescott