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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- Abraham Cowley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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