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Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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October, 1630
Died:
May 4, 1677
(aged 46)
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