“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.”

— Vittorio Alfieri

Alta vendetta
D'alto silenzio è figlia.
La Congiura de' Pazzi, I, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 707.

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Italian dramatist and poet 1749–1803

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