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The Philosophic Pill.

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I've wisdom from the East and from the West,     That's subject to no academic rule:     You may find it in the jeering of a jest,     Or distil it from the folly of a fool.     I can teach you with a quip, if I've a mind!     I can trick you into learning with a laugh;     Oh, winnow all my folly, and you'll find     A grain or two of truth among the chaff!     I can set a braggart quailing with a quip,     The upstart I can wither with a whim;     He may wear a merry laugh upon his lip,     But his laughter has an echo that is grim.     When they're offered to the world in merry guise,     Unpleasant truths are swallowed with a will     For he who'd make his fellow creatures wise     Should always gild the philosophic pill!

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