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Quote by Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword. – Samuel Johnson

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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. – Samuel Johnson

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. – Francis Beaumont

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We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. – Proverb

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Silence is the virtue of fools. – Francis Bacon

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. – Peter Minard

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