“Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.”

— Thomas Gray

A Long Story; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English poet, historian 1716–1771

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“Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.”