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Quotes from Old Fortunatus — Thomas Dekker

d. 1632 England

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And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.

Old Fortunatus (1599)

A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

Old Fortunatus (1599)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Dekker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.