William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Have more than you show, Speak less than you know."
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Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more."
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"In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly."
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