The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.Samuel Butler
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
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God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.
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Each window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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