Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in whe…

Alexander Pope
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, p.73
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