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O incredulity! the wit of fools,
That slovenly will spit on all things fair,
The coward’s castle, and the sluggard’s cradle.

— George Chapman

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Source: De Guiana, Carmen Epicum, line 84; appended to Lawrence Kemys's A Relation of the Second Voyage to Guiana (1596)
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