And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humble pride the lesson just By Time's slow finger written in the dust.


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No time like the present.
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Want, the mistress of invention.
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And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
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Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
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In the busy haunts of men.
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