They say everything in the world is good for something. - John Dryden

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I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.

John Dryden

They say everything in the world is good for something.

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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

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Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

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I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.

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