It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
—Voltaire (maybe)
Way back in my first ”nothing to say” post, I used this quote, which is commonly attributed to Voltaire. It applies again to today’s post, and I (again) made an attempt to source the quote, and once again I failed. Wikiquote refuses to source it, and Quote Investigator hasn’t tackled it yet. GoodReads says he said it, and they’re usually pretty reliable, but then again they also usually provide a source, which they don’t here. AZ Quotes is usually not reliable, but at least they give a source: The Portable Voltaire, although I’m not sure if I can consider that an authoritative source. Still, as I said last time:
But, you know, it can be true even without being famous.And, it is true. So I shall be silent.
—me (definitely)