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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1692
AUTHOR: George Eliot (1819–80)
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