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• How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Progress of Error, Line 415...
• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. -- Don Marqui
• As if the world and they were hand and glove.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 173...
• Two lights for guidance. The first, our little glowing atom of community, with all that it signifies.
  The second, the cold light of the stars, symbol of the hypercosmical reality, with its crystal ecstasy....
• How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 352...
• Fast-anchor'd isle. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 151
• The sounding jargon of the schools. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Truth, Line 367
• Variety 's the very spice of life. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 606
• MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...