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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
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Mind
Gold
Chest
Men
Grace
Chests
World
Money
Circle
Covetous
Cannot
Fill
Triangle
Body
Circles
Triangles
May
Easily
Covetousness
Whole
Neither
Fills
Heart
Air
Doth

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