Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity. (Thomas Carlyle)

Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Thomas Carlyle

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