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Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

Herman Melville

— 1854  'The Encantadas, Sketch Eighth', in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, May.

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He had got a hurt O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.


— Canto III, line 309.

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H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.


— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 309.

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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

Herman Melville

— Sketch Eighth

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