"The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant, for the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work." --Chesterton
"This day a solemn Feast the people hold
To Dagon th[e]ir Sea-Idol, and forbid
Laborious works, unwillingly this rest
Th[e]ir Superstition yields me; hence with leave
Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease,
Ease to the body some, none to the mind
From restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm
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Of Hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone,
But rush upon me thronging, and present
Times past, what once I was, and what am now."
--from Samson Agonistes
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