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— Abraham Cowley"Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages."
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Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
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John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.
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