"When we are in the company of sensible men we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion, and our own improvement, and disclose one thing which had better have been concealed, our self-sufficiency; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not."
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Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon; or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those Who Think, revised edition (1836), Vol II: CCXXXVI.
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