What watering is to plants, exactly the same is continual silence for the growth of knowledge.
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3.1.47, p. 80
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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