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Quote by William Cowper
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust

Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected — for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected? – William Cowper

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