I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Queen Elizabeth I

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

Benito Mussolini

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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

Nelson Mandela

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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Socrates

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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

M. K. Gandhi

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