Date: 3rd Century
"The black color of Ethiopia, my homeland, became my lot when it was engendered by the fiery rays of the sun. But my soul, full of white blossoms, won the favor of my understanding master; for beauty is inferior to the nobility of the soul shrouded by my black body."
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Date: 1806
"Our bodies are like shoes, which off we cast; / Physic their cobler is, and death their last."
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