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Nor let them fall under Discouragement,
Who at their Horn-book stick, and time hath spent
Upon that A, B, C, while others do
Into their Primer, or their Psalter go.

— John Bunyan A book for Boys and Girls; or Country Rhimes for Children (1686)

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Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No."

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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
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