"Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest."
— John Lyly

January 1, 1970

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P. 287. Compare: "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb", Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent Lover.