“Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is everything and everything is nought.”

—  Horace Smith

Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet and novelist 1779–1849

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