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Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

– Philip Sidney

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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

– Philip Sidney

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With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

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