“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
“Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.”
Speech dissolving the First Protectorate Parliament (22 January 1655)
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