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• A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
  This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school....
• This principle is old, but true as fate,-- Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
  -- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) -- The Honest Whore, Part i, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• Were there no women, men might live like gods. -- Thomas Dekke
• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson....
• Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Fudges in England, Letter iii...
• To bear is to conquer our fate.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire...
• Honest labour bears a lovely face. -- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) -- Patient Grissell, Act i, Sc. 1