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. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

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.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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