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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.
1989
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NUMBER:
1692
AUTHOR:
George Eliot (181980)
QUOTATION:
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
ATTRIBUTION:
GEORGE ELIOT,
Impressions of Theophrastus Such,
chapter 4, p. 51 (1900). First published in 1879.
SUBJECTS:
Silence
WORKS:
George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot Collection
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