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Quotation from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

“I say that a wise doctor, when he does not know what he is talking about, should know enough to keep his mouth shut.”

Carlo Collodi (spoken by The Talking Cricket)

The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapter 16, trans. Carol Della Chiesa

Portrait of Carlo Collodi

Called with the Crow and the Owl to decide whether the hanged puppet is alive, the Cricket refuses to join their circular diagnoses.

Citation: "I say that a wise doctor, when he does not know what he is talking about, should know enough to keep his mouth shut." — Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapter 16, trans. Carol Della Chiesa. (id the-adventures-of-pinocchio-q3)

Portrait: Pinocchio, Enrico Mazzanti (1852-1910), Public domain.

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