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They That On Glorious Ancestors Enlarge, Produce Their Debt Instead Of Their Discharge.
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They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 147
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None think the great unhappy but the great.
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The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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And waste their music on the savage race.
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Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe
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How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
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