“Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.”

— Thomas Fuller

Of Jesting.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

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English churchman and historian 1608–1661

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