Sir Walter Raleigh

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“What is our life? a play of passion;
Our mirth the music of division;
Our mothers’ wombs the tiring-houses be
Where we are dressed for this short comedy.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

“Secrecy is the badge of fraud.”
—John, Sir Chadwick (b. 1941)

“But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

“There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)