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Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge: fitter to bruise than polish.

Source: In The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, 1932.
-- Anne Bradstreet, (NA 1612?-1672), US poet; Her Verse, 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America.


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