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Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. - Thomas

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. – Thomas Carlyle

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce

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Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. – John Lahr

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Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

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Silence is a fence around wisdom. – German Proverb

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