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Enough 's as good as a feast.

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George Chapman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1559
Born: January 1
Died: 1634
Died: May 12
Dramatist
Linguist
Playwright
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Herts
Feast
Enough
Good

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Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
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Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
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As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
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The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
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Archers ever Have two strings to bow and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
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He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
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He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
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