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Whilst That For Which All Virtue Now Is Sold, And Almost Every Vice,--almighty Gold.
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Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,--almighty gold.
-- Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
-- Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
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