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A Shield is of no Use when Fortune Turns Her Back from Six Sayings about Fortune
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Credit lineA Shield is of no Use when Fortune Turns Her Back from Six Sayings about Fortune. ca. 1560. Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Elkind Gifts, 2013. CC0.
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