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Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

Approximate author period: c. 1792 AD · early modern

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William Blake
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Approximate author period: c. 1792 AD · early modern
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