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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.


William John Wills

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH