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That's what my dad's always said.
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Mark Twain seemed to think so when he first said it. And he's in good company: Abraham Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" and Percy Bysshe Shelley in his _Peter Bell the Third_"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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a closed mouth catches no feet...
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On the other hand, by identifying stupidity, one can go to work on it.
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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! how was that!
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... ;)
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open it. i'd rather look like a fool, and have my errors corrected than remain a fool forever.
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Why do you think I'm on AB?:)))))
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Why do we put such a high-price on appearing more intellectual than others in that case? Socially, why is it more valued to be academicly rich than to be physically able to survive? Is it because in evolving with this planet, we have condidtioned ourselves to no longer need survival instincts of a cave man but that of a quick thinking book worm? (Apoligies for terrible spelling, im a hypocrite)
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Probably but..I open my mouth anyway..LOL
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Yep.
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