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  ...nor the words of a man's lips. We drink at the same well where Moses helped Zipporah, we tend the same flocks, we live under the same tents; our words have changed as little as our waters, our habits, or our dwellings. What my father learnt from those before him, he delivered to me, and I have told it to my son. What is time and what is truth, that I should forget that a prophet of Jehovah married into my house?'
'Where little is done, little is said,' observed Sheikh Hassan, 'and Silence is the mother of truth.  
Since the Hegira, nothing has happened in Arabia, and before that was Moses, and before him the giants.'
'Let truth always be spoken,' said Amalek; 'your words are a flowing stream, and the children of Rechab and the tribes of the Senites never joined him of Mecca, for they had the five books, and they said, "Is not that enough?" They withdrew to the Syrian wilderness, and they multiplied. But the sons of Koreidha, who also had the five books, but who were not children of Rechab,...   Disraeli, Benjamin

Source: Tancred (bk. IV, ch. IV) · Excerpt from Tancred Or, The New Crusade · This quote is about silence · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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