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Still Waters Run Deep

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Silent and quiet conspirators or traitors are most dangerous; barking dogs never bite; the fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;

And in his simple show he harbours treason,

The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb;

No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man

Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit.”


Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iii. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Stigmites, or St. Stephen’s Stones
Stiletto of the Storm (The)
Still
Still Sow
Still Waters Run Deep
Stilling (John Henry)
Stilo Novo
Stimulants of Great Men
Stinkomalee
Stipulate
“Stir Up” Sunday
Stirrup (A)
Stirrup Cup
Stirrup-Oil
Stiver