Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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