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The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.35
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.