“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

— George Eliot , book Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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