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This world is bad enough, may-be;
We do not comprehend it;
But in one fact can all agree
God won't, and we can't mend it.

— Arthur Hugh Clough Dipsychus (1862)

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Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Amours de Voyage (1858)

Allah is great, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

Amours de Voyage (1858)

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich (1848)

That out of sight is out of mind
Is true of most we leave behind.

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