16th Century English Proverb

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“The shortest answer is doing.”
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“Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of clear thinking about the family. The disruption of families in the nineteenth century through death, separation, and other convulsions of an industrializing economy was much more catastrophic than we imagine.”
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The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
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