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 And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Quote Right
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Quote Left Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Quote Right
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Quote Left This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,... Quote Right
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Quote Left The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.Successionm for the general good design'd,In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. Quote Right
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Quote Left Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Quote Right
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