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No better than you should be.
No better than you should be.
This is a pretty flimflam.
This is a pretty flimflam.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into read more
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.
Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.
Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
More knave than fool.
More knave than fool.
