"I pensieri stretti e il viso sciolto will go safely over the whole world."
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Translation: "Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose..." attributed to Wotton in Vol. 1, p. 22
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Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton (March 30, 1568 β December 1639) was an English author and diplomat.
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