Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk.
 Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1929). copy citation

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Author Mahatma Gandhi
Source The Story of my Experiments with Truth
Topic weakness speech
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai in 1940
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