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To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
Silent anguish is the more dangerous
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak
Silence is safer than speech
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men
Silence is the wit of fools
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