Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.


Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things (ed. 1800)


Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.