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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having ...

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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George EliotImpressions of Theophrastus Such

But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.

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John DrydenAbsalom and Achitophel

All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.