"I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."
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John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (1685), Book III, Ode 29, "On Fortune", ll. 81-87
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