How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety Not I believe me.
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I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.
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