Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 1495
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.”
— Ian McEwan, book Atonement
Source: Atonement
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