And not one barley corn less

From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself

“In all people I see myself, none more, and not one a barley corn less,

And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.”

And to make things clear to me, I looked it up – a “barley corn” is a unit of length equal to about 1/3 of an inch.  That is, not much.

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