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For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

Soren Kierkegaard
Men, Egypt, Fields
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.