Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Preface to Corruption and Intolerance.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" in The New England Magazine, Vol. 1 (1831), p. 431.
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