There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west — the only folks we really wound are those we love the most. We flatter those… - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west — the only folks we really wound are those we love the most. We flatter those we scarcely know; we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (5 November 1850 – 30 October 1919) was an American poet.

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We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
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We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
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Lord Byron Rabindranath Tagore Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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