God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store. (Kenneth Burke)

God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.

Kenneth Burke

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