“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
            Maxim 914 
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Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
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Publilio Siro 112
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                        Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert to Eliza
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. ”
 
        
     
                             
                             
                             
                            