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Remote from liberty and truth,
By fortune's crime, my early youth
Drank error's poisoned springs.

— Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent

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Whoever would be pleased and please,
Must do what others do with ease.

Safer with multitudes to stray,
Than tread alone a fairer way:
To mingle with the erring throng,
Than boldly speak ten millions wrong.

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