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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.

— Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus (1599)

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This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

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

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Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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There's no music when a woman is in the concert.

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To add to golden numbers golden numbers.

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