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Baltasar Gracian
Spanish writer
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
—Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

Posted on July 23, 1999 at 12:29 PM

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