James Whitcomb Riley,
Natural Perversities
(1894)
“ We stay the strong and not the weak— Do most when we neglect.— Neglected genius—truth be said— As wild and quick as tinder, The more we seek to help ahead The more we seem to hinder. I've known the least the greatest, too— And, on the selfsame plan, The biggest fool I ever knew Was quite a little man: We find we ought, and then we won't— We prove a thing, then doubt it,— Know everything but when we don't Know anything about it. This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”
