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Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.

john dryden

— 1681Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.559-62.

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The world will never allow any man that character which he gives to himself by openly professing it to those with whom he converseth. Wit, learning, valour, acquaintance, the esteem of good men, will be known although we should endeavour to conceal them, however they may pass unrewarded: but I doubt our own bare assertions upon any of these points, will be of very little avail, except in tempting the hearers to judge directly contrary to what we advance.

— Swift, 4 Burrow, 2562—2563.

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Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

edward moore

— Edward Moore, Song XII (c. 1750s), St. 3.

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