I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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Silence sweeter is than speech.