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And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.

— Samuel Daniel Musophilus (1599)

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The stars that have most glory have no rest.

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The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.

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This is the thing that I was born to do.

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To spend the time luxuriously
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Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.

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