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It is not a Life at all. It is a Reticence, in three volumes.
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, Reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

bernard bailyn

— Chapter I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1

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There paused to shut the doorA fellow called the Wind,With mystery before,And Reticence behind.

bliss carman

— At the Granite Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

m. r. james

— "Some Remarks on Ghost Stories", in The Bookman, December 1929; cited from Michael Cox M. R. James: An Informal Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 150.

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