This is a puzzling world,
and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss,
"Old Harry" was the Devil.
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Be not hurried away by excitement, but say,
"Semblance, wait for me a little. Let me
see what you are and what you represent..."
-Epictetus,
How the Semblances of Things
are to be combated
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But wonder how the devil they got there.
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-Alexander Pope,
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.
Prologue to the Satires.
