For rhetoric, he could not open his mouth, but out there flew a trope.
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Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
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