...think ; and the other by holding their tongues and not thinking at all. By the first, many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts ; by the other, many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom. This,...
This, by the way, is a casual remark, which I would not, for the universe, have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. 
