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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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Canterbury
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Kit Marlowe
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
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Love me little, love me long.
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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
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Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
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My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
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FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
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