“Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.”
Ben Jonson
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“Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.”

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“That old bald cheater, Time.”

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