Seventeenth-century English Proverb

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“The shortest answer is doing.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.

“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere, it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)