“Man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue.”

—  Mark Akenside, book The Pleasures of the Imagination

Book II, lines 100–103
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

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