The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
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Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
Permalink to quote #17 The road to resolution lies by doubt: The next way home's the farthest way about.
Permalink to quote #19 We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.
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