Quotation by Thomas Brackett Reed

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), U.S. lawyer, politician. Quoted in The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed, ch. 21, Samuel W. McCall (1914).

Referring to two colleagues in the House of Representatives.
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