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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Approximate author period: c. 1658 AD · renaissance

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John Bunyan
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Approximate author period: c. 1658 AD · renaissance
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