Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Zum Autor"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."
"Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance."
"Wise wretch! With pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."
"Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place."
"Men would be angels Angels would be gods."
"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"