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This sad simile is much in the fashion of the old Moralizers, such as I conceive honest Baxter to have been, such as Quarles and Wither were with their curious, serio-comic, quaint emblems.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

Moralizers to the contrary notwithstanding, greatness is not always lacking in self-consciousness.

From California Sketches, Second Series by Fitzgerald, O. P.