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Stanza 27

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, 1923

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 27

1923
A witless man, when he meets with men,Had best in silence abide;For no one shall find that nothing he knows,If his mouth is not open too much.(But a man knows not, if nothing he knows,When his mouth has been open too much.)
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