“And I oft have heard defended,—
Little said is soonest mended.”
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Little said is soonest mended.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
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