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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Heart
Air
Doth
Mind
Gold
Chest
Men
Grace
Chests
World
Money
Circle
Covetous
Cannot
Fill
Triangle
Body
Circles
Triangles
May
Easily
Covetousness
Whole
Neither
Fills

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