O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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