“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. ”