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The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.
Topic: Ancestry
Author: Sir Thomas Overbury
She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early , she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.
Topic: Songs
Author: Sir Thomas Overbury
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