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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cracked Pipkins

Cracked pipkins are discovered by their sound. Ignorance is betrayed by speech.

They bid you talk—my honest song
Bids you for ever hold your tongue;
Silence with some is wisdom most profound -
Cracked pipkins are discovered by the sound.

Peter Pindar: Lord B. and his Motions.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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