Quote #5
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour.
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- Blest is that government where no art thrives.
- Brightness falls from the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die: Lord, have mercy on us.
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- Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers.
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