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• The next way home 's the farthest way about. -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book iv, Emblem 2, Ep.
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• The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
  -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book ii, Emblem 13...
• Sweet Phosphor, bring the day Whose conquering ray May chase these fog
  Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!...
• This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
  Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone....
• The lot of man,--to suffer and to die.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line 117...
• It is meat, drink, -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. vii
• Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
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• Nothing is so dear and precious as time. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap.
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