"Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil."

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Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"

— Richard Watson Gilder