“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”

—  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Part iii, canto ii. Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought.
Lucile (1860)

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