Happiness is a stranger to mankind, And, like to a forc'd m… - Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

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Happiness is a stranger to mankind, And, like to a forc'd motion, it is ever Strongest at the beginning; then languishing With time, grows weary of our company.

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

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Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c. 1615 – 26 January 1674, in Somerset House, London) was an English officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War and a notable playwright.

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