"So mon mai welþe lengest helden, giu þu neuere leuen alle monnis spechen, ne alle the þinke þat þu herest sinken."
— Alfred the Great

January 1, 1970

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The Proverbs of Alfred, st. 19, as published in The Dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus (1848), edited by John Mitchell Kemble, p. 237.