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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,Unfriendly to society's chief joys,Thy worst effect is banishing for hoursThe sex whose presence civilizes ours.
William Cowper
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I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

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— Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (26 February 1875).

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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

william cowper

— William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 251.

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