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Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
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- Carl Sandburg
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- Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1878 to 1967; Wikidata Q193608, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193608 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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