"And I too talk, and lose the touch I talk of. Surely, after all, The noblest answer unto such Is kindly silence when they brawl."
— Silence

January 1, 1970

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Alfred Tennyson, The After Thought, in Punch (March 7, 1846); Altered in the published poems to: "Is perfect stillness when they brawl".