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Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
John Dryden
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John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
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When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
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He invades authors like a monarch and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend God never made his work for man to mend.
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