"Where nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal the mind."
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January 1, 1970

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Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire II, line 207. Same idea in St. Augustine—Enchiridion ad Laurentium. Homer—Iliad, IX. 313. Traced from Goldsmith to Butler; Young to South.