The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 

Offer Your Opinion Sparingly

If you would be a wise man, and one sitting in council with his overlord, apply your heart unto perfection. Silence is more profitable to you than abundance of speech. Consider how you may be opposed by an expert that speaks in council. It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputes your words shall put them unto proof.

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