O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy. ✨ The Moral an…

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy. ✨ The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh.
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