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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. - Abraham Cowley

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Author's Biography:
Name: Abraham Cowley
Born: 1618. Died: 28 July 1667
Profession: Poet |


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