Century British

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“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
—18th century English proverb.

“Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads,”
—Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)