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Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
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