James Russell Lowell Quote

There's nothing we read of in torture's inventions
Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions.


A Fable for Critics, 1848


There's nothing we read of in torture's inventions Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions.

There's nothing we read of in torture's inventions Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions.

There's nothing we read of in torture's inventions Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions.

There's nothing we read of in torture's inventions Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions.