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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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128 AN IDEAL HUSBAND [act

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Oscar Wilde·1854–1900·Aestheticism
rudent? Ah, I forgot, your husband is anexception. Mine is the general rule, and nothingages a woman so rapidly as having married the cveneral rule. Exit LADY MARKBY.to] MRS. CHEVELEYWonderful woman, Lady Markby, isn’t she?Talks more and says less than anybody I evermet. She is made to be a public speaker.Much more so than her husband, though he isa typical Englishman, always dull and usually violent.