“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Breeze”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.”
Bk. II, ch. 4.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
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1790s
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“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep
Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 3, Aphorism 16
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