When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. - John Dryden

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

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About John Dryden

John Dryden (19 August 1631 {9 August O.S.} – 12 May 1700 {1 May O.S.}) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright. He was Poet Laureate, 1668–1689.

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Hati-hati terhadap kemarahan orang yang penyabar.
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I can enjoy her while she's kind;
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes the wings and will not stay,
I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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