People
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
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Our reading
An editorial 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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