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Walter Raleigh

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Sir Walter Raleigh (/ ' r l i /, / ' r æ l i /, or / ' r l i / ; c. 1554 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England.


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Quote Left Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Quote Right
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Quote Left There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. Quote Right
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Quote Left Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Quote Right
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Quote Left But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. Quote Right
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