"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
-John Dryden
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"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.“
-John Dryden
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