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We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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What, if a dear year come or dearth, or some loss? And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Born:
February 8, 1577
Died:
January 25, 1640
(aged 62)
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