This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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No matter what the form of the government, the liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have themselves made.
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Love in her sunny eyes does basking play Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair Love does on both her lips for ever stray And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there. In all her outward parts Love's always seen But, oh, he never went.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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