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 Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white 
skinned at the blackamoor.  
 Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white 
skinned at the blackamoor. 
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
The moon is made of a green cheese.
The moon is made of a green cheese.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
 Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
 That he suspects none.  
 Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
 That he suspects none. 
 Love all, trust a few,
 Do wrong to none.  
 Love all, trust a few,
 Do wrong to none. 
 Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
 Who never to himself hath said,
  This is my read more 
 Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
 Who never to himself hath said,
  This is my own, my native land!
   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
     From wandering on a foreign strand! 
The point is plain as a pike staff.
The point is plain as a pike staff.