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If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- Sir Walter Raleigh
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- Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1552–1618)
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Beauty · anthology attribution: Raleigh
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