“49. Love and a cough cannot be hid.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.”
— Dorothy L. Sayers, book Gaudy Night
Source: Gaudy Night
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