<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Futility</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To gild refined gold, or to paint the lily,<br>Or seek by other means to overstress,<br>As Shakespeare has it, is not merely silly,<br>But 'wasteful and ridiculous excess.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, men still try it, for no other reason<br>Than that man ever would and ever will<br>Strive fatuously, in and out of season,<br>To paint perfection's cheek more perfect still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet of all futile tasks, of all the foolish,<br>Absurd attempts that show of wit a lack,<br>The worst is his who, obstinate and mulish,<br>Insists that he should paint a collier black.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357566" data-title="Futility de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="To gild refined gold, or to paint the lily, Or seek by other means to overstress, As Shakespeare has it, is not merely silly, But 'wasteful and ridiculous excess.' Yes, men still try it, for no other reason Than that man ever would and ever will ..."></div> </div> </div>

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