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Vain The Ambition Of Kings Who Seek By Trophies And Dead Things To Leave A Living Name Behind, And Weave But Nets To Catch The Wind.
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Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
-- John Webster c.1580-c.1625)
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