Silence is the virtue of fools. ✨ 'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiar…

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Silence is the virtue of fools. ✨ 'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31
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