Quote #37
O Mother of Good Counsel, lend Intelligence to me! Encompass me with wisdom, Thou Tower of Ivory! 'This is the Man of Lies,' she says, 'Disguised with fearful art: He has the wounded hands and feet, But not the wounded heart.'
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