"What, start at this! when sixty years have……" — John Dryden
"What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?"
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John Dryden
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
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