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Sir Richard Francis Burton

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"Faith mountains move" I hear: I see the practice of the world unheed
The foolish vaunt, the blatant boast that serves our vanity to feed.

 
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When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?
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"Thy faith why false, my faith why true? 'tis all the work of Thine and Mine,
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Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

 
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"That narrow window, I expect,
Serves but to let the dusk in - "
"But please," said I, "to recollect
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I can't play games. I have friends, older women, who tell me I'm foolish to let Roman know how deeply I care about him. They tell me all sorts of things like "keep a man guessing", "men become bored with too much devotion". They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.

 
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