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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Speech is great; but silence is greater.
Speech is great; but silence is greater.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny read more
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we
give no just occasion for them.
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care.
The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care.
