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- Subject: Fools and Silence (was Re: Who said this? (Don't have a Bartlett's handy))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.014541.18856@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: kubo@widder.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:45:40 EST
- References: <1992Dec21.192148.22349@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec24.181857.3923@atlastele.com>
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- >'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open
- > [one's] mouth and remove all doubt.
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- >I have been under the (misguided?) impression that this was Abe Lincoln,
- >and have been informed that it was M. Twain.
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- There's an older Latin version which says, approximately:
- "had you not spoken, you would have remained a philosopher"
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