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John Dryden

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John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.


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Quote Left Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. Quote Right
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Quote Left Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. Quote Right
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Quote Left Your love by ours we measure Till we have lost our treasure, But dying is a pleasure, When living is a pain. Quote Right
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Quote Left Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. Quote Right
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Quote Left Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. Quote Right
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