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How Commentators Each Dark Passage Shun, And Hold Their Farthing Candle To The Sun.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97
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And waste their music on the savage race.
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The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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