If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity … - Coventry Patmore
" "If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity in them, for there is no truth; truth and simplicity being, as Aquinas says, the same thing.
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Coventry Kearsey Deighton Patmore (July 23, 1823 – November 26, 1896) was an English poet and critic.
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