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To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen,
Some recommend the bowling green;
Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

— Matthew Green The Spleen (1737)

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Nor bigots who but one way see,
Through blinkers of authority.

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Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

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Though pleased to see the dolphins play,
I mind my compass and my way.

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Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play,
I mind my compass and my way.

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