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Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
There's a quiet joke here: silence is praised as a blessing when a person has nothing to say. Rather than filling the air with words that prove they're empty, the ideal speaker simply stays quiet, sparing everyone the noise.
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