He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
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Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.
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The golden age never was the present age.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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