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• Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire vi, Line 208...
• Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 282...
• And waste their music on the savage race.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire v, Line 228...
• None think the great unhappy but the great.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 238...
• They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 147...
• The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 51...
• 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...
• Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 207...
• How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97...