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Quotes from The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation — John Ray

1627–1705 England

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I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691)

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