Quote#Speech
Then live who may, where honied words prevail
Quote byEdward Hovell Thurlow · 1781–1829
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Select Poems (1821), Sonnet ("When In The Woods I Wander All Alone"), l. 13.
English (original)
Then live who may, where honied words prevail, I with the deer, and with the nightingale!
— Edward Hovell Thurlow
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