“We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth”
Patrick O'Brian (1914–2000) English novelist
“Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 12, “Birdsflight” (p. 297).
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