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  • What is this world?--A term which men have got,
    To signify not one in ten knows what;
    A term, which with no more precision passes
    To point out herds of men than herds of asses;
    In common use no more it means, we find,
    Than many fools in same opinions joined.

    Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.61