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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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