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Unlearned Men Of Books Assume The Care, As Eunuchs Are The Guardians Of The Fair.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 83
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
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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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None think the great unhappy but the great.
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They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
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And waste their music on the savage race.
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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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How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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