Quote#Nature
Oft has good-nature been the fool's defence
Quote byWilliam Shenstone · 1714–1763
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Verses to a Lady" (1736), in Poems upon Various Occasions (Oxford: Leon Lichfield, 1737), p. 65..
English (original)
Oft has good-nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
— William Shenstone
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