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Our ravings and complaints are but like arrows shot up into the air at no mark, and so to no purpose, but only to fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
Our ravings and complaints are but like arrows shot up into the air at no mark, and so to no purpose, but only to fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
Approximate author period: c. 1663 AD · renaissance
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- Sir William Temple
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- Approximate author period: c. 1663 AD · renaissance
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Sir William Temple. · page_339
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