“In all the silent manliness of grief.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 384.
“The greatest griefs are silent.”
— Wally Lamb, book I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
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