Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Henry Taylor (1800-1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 18 (1836)

 
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