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"Wisdom and goodness to the vile." (William Shakespeare)

"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
Filths savor but themselves. What have you done?
Tigers, not daughters, what have you performed?
father, and a gracious agèd man,
Whose reverence even the head-lugged bear would lick,
Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded."

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SOURCE: "King Lear" - "Act IV - Scene II" (William Shakespeare)