William Temple
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Sir William Temple (1628 – 1699) was a statesman and essayist, who successfully negotiated the marriage of William, Prince of Orange and Princess Mary of England.
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- "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
- Ancient and Modern Learning
- When all is done, human life is, at the greatest, and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
- Miscellanea, Part II, "Of Poetry".
- No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than [England's] declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
- Memoirs, Volume II, p. 255.
