Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In th… - Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper (17 July 1810 – November 1880) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.

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