So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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John Dryden239 quotes“So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.”
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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