Samuel Butler: Handel and Shakespeare have left us the best that any have left us; yet, in spite of this, how much of their lives was w

Handel and Shakespeare have left us the best that any have left us; yet, in spit — Samuel Butler

Handel and Shakespeare have left us the best that any have left us; yet, in spite of this, how much of their lives was wasted.

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My man's as true as steel. — William Shakespeare
Nature's old felicities. — William Wordsworth