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A small defect which mars the general result.
“Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
It is the little rift within the lute
That by-and-by will make the music mute,
And ever widening, slowly silence all.”
Tennyson: Merlin and Vivien; Vivien’s Song, verses 1, 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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