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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edg[e], fitter to bruise than polish.
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, XII, ed. John Harvard Ellis, 1867.
-- Anne Bradstreet, (NA 1612?-1672), US poet; Her Verse, 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America.