“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
“5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Thomas Fuller (writer) 420
British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
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Henry Morton Stanley
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