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And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,—nor white so very white.

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,—nor white so very white.

Approximate author period: c. 1798 AD · early modern

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George Canning
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Approximate author period: c. 1798 AD · early modern
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

New Morality.

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