Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them a…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.169
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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.169

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