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.

“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
—18th-century English proverb.