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• Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk,--the business of the day.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 407...
• Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose
  but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need....
• Love is love's reward. -- John Dryde
• All heiresses are beautiful. -- John Dryde
• All heiresses are beautiful. -- John Dryden (1631-1700)
• Never was a patriot yet, but was a fool. -- John Dryden (1631-1700)
• To die is landing on some distant shore. -- John Dryde
• The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Poetry, a Metrical Essay...
• Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. -- John Dryde