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Today’s Poem: The Vanity of Human Wishes

Today’s Poem: The Vanity of Human Wishes

Cheerful wisdom and instructive mirth

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Pieter Boel, Fighting Animals as Allegory of the Combat between Virtue and Vice, 1658 (Städel Museum)

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