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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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