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“Silence is the best answer to a fool.”

— Nnedi Okorafor Zahrah the Windseeker (2005)

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

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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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