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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it... →
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.