"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
"Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely."
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Source: Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1853). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby”, p.115
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