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I have ventur'd,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me.

— William Shakespeare Henry VIII (1613)

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
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