It’s fairly benign, but looks a little archaic—not so archaic that it’d have to be medieval, though. The rest of the phrasing is fairly modern, or I’d probably have assumed it was a quote from anywhere from the Enlightenment up to the Edwardian period. It has the ring of something a Victorian aphorist might say.
It’s fairly benign, but looks a little archaic—not so archaic that it’d have to be medieval, though. The rest of the phrasing is fairly modern, or I’d probably have assumed it was a quote from anywhere from the Enlightenment up to the Edwardian period. It has the ring of something a Victorian aphorist might say.