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Alfred Tennyson Quotes

Too much wit Makes the world rotten. - Alfred Tennyson (The Idylls of the King Quotes)

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Source:The Last Tournament (1971); in Idylls of the King (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., ed. 1891), Page 295
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  • Name: Alfred Tennyson
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892
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