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Their Feet Through Faithless Leather Met The Dirt, And Oftener Chang'd Their Principles Than Shirt.
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Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- To Mr. Pope, Epistle i, Line 277
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