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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Profitable
Doctrine
Rule
Example
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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