All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is …

Alexander Pope
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend. ✨ 'Epistles to Seve … ▶
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. ✨ 'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 27

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