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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech...
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 4, Sir Walter Scott, 1839.
-- 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.