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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. - W

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper

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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a strangers treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enrolld me, minds are never to be sold. – William Cowper

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