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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Thrift
Hospitality
Provision
Fuel
Foundation
Magnificence

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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
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