"The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not."

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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAcademics from the United KingdomViceroys of IndiaBritish Ambassadors to France
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Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought.

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Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought.