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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
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Books
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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