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In judging others we can see too well
Their grievous fall, but not how grieved they fell;
Judging ourselves, we to our minds recall,
Not how we fell, but how we grieved to fall.

— George Crabbe, “Boys at School,” 1819

January 29, 2025January 28, 2025 | Poems

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