Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    My Poynz, I cannot frame me tune to fayne,
    To cloke the trothe for praisse withowt desart,
    Of them that lyst all vice for to retayne.
    I cannot honour them that settes their part
    With Venus and Baccus all theire lyf long;
    Nor holld my pece of them allthoo I smart.
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.
    Richard, Sir Storey (b. 1937)

    Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)

    With serving still
    This have I won,
    For my goodwill
    To be undone;
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)