If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where.
A poem on guarding speech by observing whom you speak to, what you say, and how, when and where—practical wisdom for avoiding offence through careless words.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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