You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. (William Blake)

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

William Blake

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