“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).
“People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!”
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