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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Source: Inaugural address, 2 Apr 1866, on being installed as Rector of the University at Edinburgh.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.