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19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by us, is not properly ours.
Whos'ever by sinister meanes is comeTo places of preferment, and to walke
Within the bounds of vertue takes no pleasure:
Provideth onely titles for his tombe,
And for the baser people pratling talke:
But nothing for himselfe in any measure;
For fortune doth with all things us befit,
Save the sole mind of ours: and Vice kils it.
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