<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396688" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Certain People</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Puritans they prominently wax,<br>And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks.<br>Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks,<br>They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks.<br>But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks<br>When Peace another door in them unlocks,<br>Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox<br>Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe.<br>Graceless they are when gone to frivolousness,<br>Fearing the God they flout, the God they glut.<br>They need their pious exercises less<br>Than schooling in the Pleasures: fair belief<br>That these are devilish only to their thief,<br>Charged with an Axe nigh on the occiput.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</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=396688" data-title="A Certain People de George Meredith" data-description="As Puritans they prominently wax, And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks. Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks, They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks. But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks When Peace another door in..."></div> </div> </div>

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