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Joanna Baillie on Honesty

1762–1851 Scotland

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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul.

De Montfort (1798)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joanna Baillie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.