Social Commentaries

Of Fortune

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4

Social Commentaries

FOrtune, men say, doth giue too much to many:
But yet shee neuer gaue enough to any.

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Codex Note

Book 4, Epigram 56

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