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Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so."
Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No."

— John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)

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Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

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When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it.

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And so I penned
It down, until at last it came to be,
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

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Every fat must stand upon its own bottom.

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So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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