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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 6007 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sartor Resartus. Book iii. Chap. iii. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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