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Life And Death

	When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Sir William Temple (1628 - 1699)

English statesman and essayist

Miscellanea, the Second Part, 1690, "Of Poetry"