Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. - "Sir William Temple"

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Sir William Temple

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
- Sir William Temple
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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.
- Sir William Temple