“This too I know—and wise it were
If each could know the same—
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their brothers maim.”
Pt. V, st. 29
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.”
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Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13.