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“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”
Immediate expression is not always honesty or wisdom; restraint can protect judgment from being replaced by whatever emotion arrives first.
Source note: Proverbs 29:11 in the King James Version.