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William Blake Quotes: What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
         

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.


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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
         



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