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Erasmus on Life

1466–1536 Netherlands

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No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope).

So likewise all this life of martall men,
What is it but a certaine kynde of stage plaie?
Where men come forthe disguised one in one arraie,
An other in an other eche plaiying his part.

Praise of Folie. Challoner's translation (1549)

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