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A wise and salutary neglect. - Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America (vol. II, p. 117) No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace: Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. - Ben Jonson, Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1) His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach. - Matthew Prior, Alma (canto II, l. 7) A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. - Archbishop Richard Whately
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